ICYMI: If the Beyoncé Feminist pumpkin wasn’t enough for you, here are some featuring the almighty Wonder Woman. Carve on!
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Man Tapped To Draw The New Wonder Woman Doesn’t Want Her To Be “Feminist”
David Finch, the artist who’s taking over DC Comics' Wonder Woman, says he wants the feminist icon to be “strong"—but not "feminist.”
He said: “We want to make sure it’s a book that treats her as a human being first and foremost, but is also respectful of the fact that she represents something more. We want her to be a strong—I don’t want to say feminist, but a strong character. Beautiful, but strong.”
“That’s pretty funny,” Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, who created the film Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. “She’s an obvious feminist role model for many people for many reasons…It’s like getting rid of her kryptonite to say that about her.”
Source: Mother Jones, image by DC Comics
To kick off Women’s History Month, we are proudly celebrating Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine. Ms. launched its first newsstand issue in 1972. “I’ll give it six months before they run out of things to say,” news anchor Harry Reasoner famously said. It’s still going strong today.
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Katniss Everdeen – And 5 Other Action Heroines Who Are Leaning In
The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen is a feminist dream: she’s intrepid and tough, an independent leader who is as smart as she is skilled with a bow. As Catching Fire remains the box office champ for the second week running, 15-year-old Alex Kukoff from Thousand Oaks, CA decided to profile 5 other action heroines who leaned in. May the odds be ever in their favor.
Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games: “I volunteer as tribute!”
Warner Bros. has repeatedly said how difficult it is to make a movie about the world’s most renowned superheroine.
But this short film, directed by Sam Balcomb of Rainfall Films, shows how awesome a Wonder Woman film can be. The short film stars Rileah Vanderbilt of Team Unicorn, a multimedia production company that sets out to show that female geeks exist.
Read more (io9)
“Tons of people are saying a woman can’t star in a superhero movie. (Just like they probably said an interconnected superhero universe couldn’t happen at the movies.) Stan Lee says there’s no need. But a good superheroine movie is necessary and doable. Here are eight ways to make a movie about a female superhero movie happen.”
8 ways to make a movie about a female superhero happen (i09)
Some of the Greatest, Most Popular Comic Books Are Feminist (The Atlantic)
Creator William Marston believed that women were better suited than men to rule, and his comics were devoted to explicit feminist moralizing. In one issue, Wonder Woman becomes the president of a future utopia. In another, she teaches girls that they can perform amazing feats of strength and skill if they only believe in themselves. In a third, Wonder Woman has to dispel an ectoplasmic doppelganger of George Washington who attempts to convince the United States that women should not be allowed to contribute to the war effort.
“Wonder Woman” newspaper comic strip brochure c. 1944
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