Clockwise from top left: Lapamela, gweebay, jackiejoice, lets_breakthrough, & rivviepop
The very first Carnival for Radical Action has been posted, and it’s an impressive effort, not to mention a handy guide for people like me who don’t have the first clue about organizing, speaking out, or acting up. They didn’t teach me any of that at Republican school, though luckily I dropped out before completing the course in “How the Existence of Suspect Documents Actually Means the Occupation of Iraq Is Going Just Swell, Really, We Swear.” Those of you with better things to do with your time than analyze the properties of .PDF files (and sweet mother of mercy, that had better be all of you) will definitely want to check out the Carnival for Radical Action.
I am also informed by one Thinking Girl that there exists a feminist comic book entitled Rainbow Girl Stars in SEXY WAR. Yes, the SEXY WAR is in all caps, just like that, and no, I have no idea either, really, but does it matter? The important thing to grasp here is that a feminist blogger has authored a feminist comic book! And you can buy the damn thing! Available through Paypal for the low, low price of $6 Canadian! And–AND–all proceeds will be donated by Rainbow Girl to the Umoja Women’s Village in Kenya. What? Oh, come now–you certainly recall the Umoja Women’s Village:
Ten years ago, a group of women established the village of Umoja, which means unity in Swahili, on an unwanted field of dry grasslands. The women said they had been raped and, as a result, abandoned by their husbands, who claimed they had shamed their community.
Stung by the treatment, Lolosoli, a charismatic and self-assured woman with a crown of puffy dark hair, decided no men would be allowed to live in their circular village of mud-and-dung huts.
So how cool is this? Feminist comic book. Umoja Women’s Village. SEXY WAR. It’s almost enough to make me stop feeling ashamed of being a nerd, I tell you.
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Feminist comic book! Be still my heart! It’s like all my dreams coming true, all at once. Whatever will I do with the rest of my life?
Thanks for the plug Ilyka!
Hello? MsFly?
hello, zillions of other comic books?
start with Dykes to Watch out For, and anything else by Alison Bechdel.
move swiftly along to Hothead Paisan, making a quick pitstop for the work of Marjane Satrapi (though only her Embroideries is specifically about feminist issues). Try also the anthology Sherezade, edited by Megan Kelso (who I believe has a graphic novel over her own out there, which I have not yet read).
And who could forget Lynda Barry????
I also know i’ve left several people out whose work doesn’t happen to be staring at me from the bookshelf across the room.
seriously, yall. there’s an entire generation of feminist comics out there. you just gotta know where to look
that should be “a graphic novel of her own”, sorry.
also, Julie Doucet
Ellen Forney (I highly recommend her collection I Love Led Zeppelin)
Ariel Schrag
and as stated above, many many more.
Love & Rockets is/was written by guys, but it’s still damn feminist.
Well, my summer reading list just got filled up to overflowing, yippee!
Julie Doucet rocks.
Oh, hey: Roberta Gregory.
Yay!! Thanks for posting this in support of Rainbow Girl, Ilyka!
PSSST: if y’all think this is a great idea, like I do, please consider posting about it on your own blogs too!
I didn’t know Umoja was still around. I’m really glad to hear it. I’d heard about the village some years ago, and how the men from their old village had attacked them with clubs.
I’m glad they’re winning. Every small victory counts.