June 2012
34 posts
May 2012
30 posts
Wellesley Tumblr Roll Call
Can we do a roll call for all the Wellesley peeps on Tumblr? Just reblog this if you go to/went to Wellesley. If you are inclined, you can add your name and year but it’s fine if you don’t.
<3 Wellesley Underground
Malinda Lo’ 96
I appear to be ANCIENT in relation to the rest of you Wellesley tumblr women :)
“Every historical period has been unkind to women, up to and including our own. But that doesn’t mean that there weren’t complex and interesting possibilities available to women of all eras, in between stirring the turnip soup and being oppressed.”
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(Fascinating reading for anyone writing/reading historical fantasy.)
Uncovering YA Covers from 2011 by Kate Hart →
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Such an important, informative read dissecting what does—and does not—appear on Young Adult book covers.
Super awesome!
Queer women and (in)visibility →
malindalo.com
Last Saturday I was driving to see Pamela Melroy speak about being only the second woman to command a space shuttle mission, when I heard a story on NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered about the impact of television on public opinions about gay people. Since I used to write about gay people on television, I was really interested in this piece, which featured an interview between host Guy Raz and Edward Schiappa, a professor of communications studies at the University of Minnesota.
So, this was a 5-minute piece on the radio. I knew that they couldn’t get too deeply into the nuances of LGBT representation on television. But you know what pissed me off? It basically dismissed — and then erased — women from the dialogue. [Continue reading]
Gezillig by Gayle Forman: Writers Advice! →
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So I just got back from a whole bunch of traveling and touring and got asked a zillion questions, but one of the most popular ones was this: What advice do you have for aspiring writers? I answered it so many times that I managed to edit down my usual blathering to a single Do and a single…
Excellent advice for writers, especially young writers!
“I want to do movies for women, but I don’t only want to do that. … What we’re doing as women by making these small, little movies, because that’s all they’ll give us, is we’re making things that don’t make as much money, that have a smaller audience and are harder to get right, and then we’re wondering why we don’t get bigger movies. That is very self-reinforcing. I would love me a big Hollywood movie. ‘Wonder Woman’? Give me a call.”
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And thus the cycle of sexism continues.
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