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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Family portrait
The four main characters of The Second Mango and its sequels, as drawn on commission by akidoodles. Here is her commission info. Queen Shulamit, the cuddly intellectual lesbian star of the series, is the one in the lower right corner. This picture goes up … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, ashkenazi, bisexual, cartoon, diversity, family, family of choice, found family, jewish, jewish characters, jews of color, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, queer
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J. L. Douglas writing about her impressions of The Second Mango
Shira Glassman’s characters came across to me, the avid-yet-sometimes jaded reader of LGBT-YA romance, as much more than just points on some PC focus group checklist (as sometimes happens in this genre unfortunately). I really felt like these were … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, book reviews, books, lesbian, lgbt, lgbt ya, lgbtq, queer, review, reviews, ya lit, young adult
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Goofy webcomic with a lot of queer characters
Becca Schauer is one of my favorite artists to commission. And tonight, I ate too much and feel like a python slowly digesting a grand piano. So I decided to lie on the floor on my stomach, snakelike, and read her … Continue reading
Target practice
Isaac taught Rivka to swordfight, but he never expected that she’d get so good that he’d fall in love with her. He calls her ‘Mighty One’ as a pet name and they often spar for fun. Here, he’s using his … Continue reading
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Tagged age gap, age gap relationships, age gap romance, books, fantasy, fantasy books, fantasy novels, fantasy romance, feminism, fiction, jewish, novels, older man younger woman, older men, romance, romantic fiction, sparring, strawberries, strawberry, sword, warrior, warrior woman, warrior women, wizard, wizards
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There’s a world of difference to me between showing a masculine-presenting woman with an interest exclusively in men in a universe with no canonical queerness and showing a masculine-presenting woman with an interest exclusively in men in a universe where … Continue reading
Two special people in my life also have blogs
Tof Eklund: genderqueer comics scholar, editor of the “Unconventional” series (Unconventional Dwarf, Unconventional Elf, etc. — volumes of essays intended for the gaming world), and writer of Autumn Harvest Being a Vet: My best friend/imaginary big sister shares her experiences … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, blogging, comics, family, friends, genderqueer, tof eklund, vet, veterinarian, veterinary medicine
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Canon femslash and female friendship at a girl’s boarding school for witches
Bluebell Hall by Kayla Bashe is like reading a novelized version of really cute magical girl/shoujo ai anime—if shoujo ai were to be scrubbed clean of “but we’re both girls!” and all the insulting fanservicey boob shots stuff. It’s the story … Continue reading
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Tagged bluebell hall, female friendship, femslash, girls, kayla bashe, lesbian, lesbian fiction, lgbt, lgbtq, magical girls, paranormal, queer, shoujo ai, teen paranormal, teen witches, witches, ya, young adult, young adult fiction
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Passover with Pride
The wizard Isaac and his beloved, Rivka the warrior, protecting their queer loved ones, Queen Shulamit and her partner, Aviva. Across the doorposts and lintel are streaks of the pride rainbow, which are protecting them just as the streaks of … Continue reading
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Tagged ashkenazi, bisexual, exodus, family, gay, gay pride, jewish, judaism, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, mangoverse, mizrahi, passover, pesach, pride, queer, Shira Glassman, the second mango, women-of-color
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Quote I learned at Shabbat service
Don’t stop after beating the swords into plowshares, don’t stop! Go on beating and make musical instruments out of them. Whoever wants to make war again will have to turn them into plowshares first. –Yehuda Amichai
There are times when Queen Shulamit doesn’t really mind being gluten-intolerant!
Shulamit and her bodyguard Captain Rivka are characters from The Second Mango (sequel due out July 2014!) drawn here on commission by casually-draws-dorks.
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Tagged allergic, allergy, books, celiac, food allergies, food allergy, friendship, gluten intolerance, gluten intolerant, gluten-free, jewish, judaism, matzo, passover, pesach, sarcasm, snark, snarky, women, women-of-color
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