Since the Harvey Weinstein story broke wide open last month, there’s been a flood of reports of sexual harassment by many famous figures in the
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How to fix the comics industry’s harassment and diversity problems?
The past few weeks have seen a large amount of attention paid to the comics industry’s problems with diversity, sexual harassment, and sexism. To summarize
Read moreReddit finally shows some backbone, bans some racist subreddits
Recent events with Reddit have made much of how vocally bigoted some of its subreddits are, and how half-heartedly they’ve handled such, often behind the
Read moreReddit plans to deal with its racist content by… sticking a curtain in front of it?
Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet,” has been under a lot of fire in recent months. Staff turmoil, an interim CEO leaving, and
Read moreYet more sexism in comics: Yale Stewart and Spider-Woman
Once again, sexism reared its ugly head in the comics medium during the past week… Last week, it was fully revealed (after being an “open
Read moreDavid S. Goyer, writer of “Man of Steel” and its sequel, makes crude remarks about She-Hulk during a podcast
David S. Goyer, the writer for “Man of Steel” as well as the upcoming “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” got raked over the online
Read moreYet another round of comics sexism: Janelle Asselin, “Teen Titans” and online backlash
“Teen Titans” (vol. 5) #1 (September 2014). Art by Kenneth Rocafort. (DC Comics) Other than Amazon’s purchase of Comixology, the biggest comics topic online in
Read moreA week of media racism, sexism, and homophobia: from superheroes to “Duck Dynasty”
While it’s not all about comics/animation, the previous week’s seen plenty of racist, sexist, and homophobic stuff in the media that I feel’s worth remarking
Read moreDC promises to address more diversity in its reboot-comics
As reported on the blog “DC Women Kicking Ass” (and other comics news sites), DC posted this statement to their blog, addressing recent criticisms about
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