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Hey people, and welcome to my roundup.  These are some of the cool links I found this week…enjoy!

First off, from The F-Word…a display of one of my least favorite things to see: sexist rape-celebrating t-shirts.

From Feministing, an expose of how sexist Jean-Claude Van Damme acted towards a female interviewer.

From the Rachel in WY at the Feministing Community Blog, a fuck-you to the princess fad.

From Alas, a Blog, a video from The Onion about the Nice Guy complex.

From Cruella-Blog, a discussion … READ MORE

I’ve just set up a LiveJournal community for women in the media to network with each other. I’ve invited some female film professionals and a few bloggers I know who write about women in film, TV, comics, gaming, books, etc. If these topics are of interest to you and/or you’d like to get to know some wonderful women, please join us! You don’t have to have to be female and/or harbor ambitions in the field of gender and media to … READ MORE

I’m a bit late reporting this, but Feminist SF - The Blog! is running a poll in two phases to determine the Top 10 Obscure Sci-Fi Books. As Draconismoi pointed out to me, the titles all seem to share something in common besides obscurity: they don’t feature a white heterosexual male as the lead.

The film industry is not alone in its belief that we won’t buy something that isn’t about Whitey. Hollywood people often (and I’m not supposed to share … READ MORE

The recent bout of feminist critique of Firefly has finally roused me from my prolonged inability to write anything at all about television, which will hopefully translate not only into some posts on that show that I’ve been mulling for a while, but also into some more regular content from me. Consider yourselves warned.

As is covered in the linked post, although Joss Whedon’s work is beloved by many feminists and is definitely leaps and bounds beyond the bulk of television, … READ MORE

I am the most neglectful reader evar, right?

Or at least, the most neglectful sharer. I have actually been reading the internets all this time, and saving up the links for that wonderful day when I could sit down and share them all with you…
But then Anna did a super-amazing job with her edition of the Feminist SF Carnival, and managed to hit all the internets I’d saved up, plus many, many more. It’s gigantic, and wonderful, and in three themed … READ MORE

After posting last week’s I Read the Internets, I suddenly wondered whether I had somehow missed the latest Feminist SF Carnival (it seemed like it had been quite some time since I read one), so I went looking and found out that the carnival has been postponed while Ragnell hunts for a host.  If you have the slightest bit of interest in hosting an edition of the Feminist SF Carnival, you should totally go for it.  You can find contact … READ MORE

I’m back again, internets! Happily married, and no longer freaking out randomly over stupid things like whether or not two different materials are exactly the same shade of dark green. Not that I ever did freak out over such a thing. Of course not.

Anyway! I’ve been pretty busy, and haven’t been as glued to the internets as is my general habit, but I do have some fresh reading for you all this weekend. Yayes!

First up, K. Tempest Bradford has an … READ MORE

I haven’t had time for much internets-reading this week, but fortunately it’s carnival time again, and I can thus direct you all towards a couple of excellent round-ups. Lee Kottner has the 17th Carnival of Feminist SF Fans up at Spawn of Bloghorrea, and bellatrys has the 3rd People of Colour SF Carnival up at Nothing New Under the Sun. Lots of excellent reading to be found throughout – go, click! And then volunteer to host. You know you want … READ MORE

Oh my God, Internets, I am getting married in a couple of weeks.

AHHHHH!

So, y’know, I’m really sorry both that I Read the Internets is lateish this week, and that it’s a bit shortish, but it was kinda out of my hands.  Every time I’d sit down for some nice internets reading, my phone would ring and it would be some relative or wedding party member or caterer or someone panicking about something and needing my input ASAP.  If, for some … READ MORE

Hello again, dear readers!  I don’t have a good excuse for missing last week’s I Read the Internets, but I do have lots of great internets saved up for you to read, so I’m hoping you’ll all forgive me.

There’s a new kid on the linkblog block: Comic Gays collects links dealing with – you guessed it! – comics and gays.  Links are presented under descriptive headers, so the reader has a bit of an idea of what to expect on … READ MORE