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Guest Essay: Nik Reeves-McLaren
I should start with a confession: I’m a middle class middle-aged white guy. While in my gut it feels a bit unfair or disingenuous to suggest I’m playing life ‘on the easy setting’, in light of things I...
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Guest Post: Author James Michaels Part 2
Hello there, SuperFolk! If you missed yesterday’s post, pop on over to catch up before reading on. All caught up? Good. As yesterday, some of the following post may be triggery due to concerning...
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Confessions of a Star Trek N00b #3
Episode 105: The Last Outpost, Stardate 41386.4 Spoiler Warning! BEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOHBEEDOH! “You go first.”“You go first.”“No, you go first.” “We should talk to...
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“Because You’re Still Asking Me That Question.”
Joss Whedon. Image by Gage Skidmore. “Why do you write these strong female characters?” “Because you’re still asking me that question.” It’s a now-famous quote by Joss Whedon, and his answer is one...
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Faora: A Villainess Done Right
Image property of Warner Brothers. Your average bigscreen Superman villain tends to issue dramatic declarations, possesses a motivation to conquer Earth for better or worse, and has a propensity to...
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Gatekeepers Should Drive Change
At a convention, I once asked an artist why he chose to paint apples over oranges. We weren’t really talking about fruit, but his answer intrigued me. “Because I produce my best art when I paint...
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When It Comes To Diversity, Brains Matter Too
Photo courtesy of Knot The Ordinary Zombies know that brains come in different flavors. We humans, however, like to pretend that isn’t true. In genre fiction, people who fall outside the spectrum of...
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Internalize Equality by Broadening Fantasies
One of the most common arguments I hear against increasing diversity in speculative entertainment is that fans don’t want to experience stories that resemble the real world–they want to escape it....
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