The Thursday Edition - Jul 19, 2018
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Big on the Internet, Aly Raisman, Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics

141 Survivors of Larry Nassar’s Abuse Took the Stage at the ESPY Awards for the Arthur Ashe Courage Award

gymnasts
Last night at the ESPY Awards, 141 survivors of USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar's sexual assault took the stage to receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. The audience gave the women a standing ovation, as they filled the stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Jennifer Garner presented the women with the award, as Sarah Klein, Aly Raisman, and Tiffany Thomas Lopez accepted the award on behalf of the survivors.
Big on the Internet, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, women in television

Interview: Candice Patton, Caity Lotz, & Women of The CW’s Arrowverse Launch Shethority, a Platform for Women’s Stories

Candice Patton and Caity Lotz side by side
Amazing things happen when women support each other and tell their stories.
Big on the Internet, bess kalb, matt walsh, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: The Incredible Twitter Fairy Tale Thread That Destroys Matt Walsh’s Transphobic Bullshit

Matt Walsh Twitter transphobia
Matt Walsh, in his own words, is "a writer, speaker, author, and one of the religious Right's most influential young voices," as well as a self-described "extremist." You can imagine the charming opinions that Matt Walsh has.
Big on the Internet, Feminist Film Forum, The Mary Sue, The Mary Sue Event, Tor Books

The Mary Sue’s Feminist Film Forum in NYC on July 19th is Sold Out!!!

Drew Barrymore in Scream
If you snagged a ticket, we're a lot of fun to hang out with, we promise.
TV, Ahsoka Tano, George Lucas, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Celebrates Ten Years of Re-Writing Prequel History

Ahsoka Tano is ready to fight in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The show, which began with a somewhat ill received movie and earned six seasons in a reverse Community move, has a cult following in the Star Wars fandom, and for good reason. It's a spectacular series that tackles deeper themes than we get to truly explore in the prequels, or in many parts of the franchise at all. 
TV, Amber Tamblyn, Y: The Last Man

Amber Tamblyn Has Been Added to the Cast of FX’s Y: The Last Man

amber tamblyn
Following last week's announcement of the incredible cast lined up for the adaptation of Vertigo's Y: The Last Man, FX continues to add new names and they continue to be super exciting.
Books, Star Wars (franchise), star wars books, tie-in novels

Star Wars Novels We Want To See Announced at SDCC

Star Wars novel Thrawn Alliances will feature an appearance by Padme Amidala
With only one novel currently announced—Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn, which drops next Tuesday—the panel is already promising surprise panelists and announcements that will reveal what the upcoming titles will be. Fans of Star Wars's new canon novels are eagerly awaiting the reveals, since there's plenty of material that needs filling in via some seriously cool books.
Comics, Eisner Hall of Fame, Rumiko Takahashi

5 Female Mangaka Who Should Be Recognized

Inuyasha (2000)
Prolific mangaka Rumiko Takahashi is nominated for the Eisner Hall of Fame and we hope she makes it. In honor of her nomination, here are some other female mangaka who deserve some recognition.
AMP Featured, Big on the Internet, millennials, money, privilege

This Infuriatingly Oblivious Refinery29 “Money Diary” Piece Is Somehow Not Satire

avocado toast, privilege, refinery29, money, money diaries
Money Diaries has always been a fiery hate-read. But a new entry has gone beyond regular hate-read and into pure burn-it-down territory.
TV, Chyna, hulk hogan, WWE

If Hulk Hogan Is Going Back in the WWE Hall of Fame, It’s Time to Cut the Bullshit and Induct Chyna

WWF female wrestler Chyna signs autographs at the Video Software Dealer's Association annual convention at the Venetian July 8, 2000 in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by Chris Weeks/Liaison)
The thing that upsets me the most about Hogan being reinstated into the WWE HoF is that Chyna is still not inducted at all.
Movies, Bad Robot, jj abrams, Overlord

The First Trailer for Overlord Drops, Proving JJ Abrams Still Has It

Wyatt Russell co-stars in Overlord from Bad Robot
Will Jovan Adepo's Boyce be a Final Guy figure and escape from these experiments safe and sound? Will the flamethrower-wielding female soldier make it out okay? And what is behind that wall?
TV, HBO, women in film

HBO’s Barry Gives Us a Female Character Who’s Actually Human With Sally Reed

Sally holds her hands up as her eyes water on HBO's Barry
In any other show, Sally could have easily been the character whose only function was to be the promise of a better life for the damaged male anti-hero—an unchanging oasis of normalcy and calm in which he could find refuge, when his life of violence overwhelmed him—but with the combined expertise of Barry's creative team and Sarah Goldberg’s nuanced, empathetic performance, Sally is quickly revealed to be just as flawed and troubled as every other person on the show
Movies, Batman (character), Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight Was the Best & Worst Thing to Happen to Superhero Movies

Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008)
As we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of The Dark Knight, the second film in Christopher Nolan's Batman movie trilogy, this is as good a time as any to talk about how, despite its cinematic brilliance, this was a movie that really turned the film image of the Batman into an unfunny, stuffy mess.
Movies, Mamma Mia, mamma mia universe, mamma mia! here we go again

Is ABBA a Band in the Mamma Mia! Universe?

When Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy! championship fame) took to Twitter to pose the question of ABBA existing in the Mamma Mia! world, fans began to question everything they knew about the movie. With the release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again quickly approaching, everyone is turning back to the original movie to prepare.
Big on the Internet, female characters, gender representation, monsters

Why Are There so Few Sympathetic Female Monsters?

Medusa's head
We need female monsters for simple diversity of characters. We need to explore women undefined by physical appearance and see them as complex creatures.
Science & Tech, Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City, women in politics

IRL Sex & the City Political Fanfic: Mr. Big Supports Miranda for Governor!

sex and the city, miranda, big, chris noth
As we all learned from everything that was 2016, it can be super dangerous to treat politics like it's reality TV or general entertainment. On the other hand, the world is a garbage fire and it can be really nice to impose some frivolous distractions into our political landscape.
Big on the Internet, Disney princesses, Her Universe, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: We Want All the Clothes From Her Universe’s Disney Princess Line

Jasmine from the Her Universe Disney princess fashion collection
Ariel-inspired jeans? A Tiana romper? A magic carpet bag? Dinglehopper makeup brushes?!
Big on the Internet, donald trump, Queen Elizabeth II, Trolling Guides

The Queen May Have Trolled Trump Through Jewelry

Queen Elizabeth II trump brooch trolling
Queen Elizabeth may have been trolling through fashion, something Melania Trump wishes she were this good at.
Comics, marvel, Marvel Comics, What If

Marvel Comics Announces Awesomely Mind-Bending “What If” Series

Marvel Comics What Ifs
"What If the Marvel Universe was … different?"
Movies, Fantastic Beasts (franchise), fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald, LGBTQ Representation

Sexuality Isn’t a Spoiler: How Major Franchises are Letting Down LGBT+ Fans

Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The problem is is that sexuality might not define Dumbledore, but it plays a big role in the lives of those who do identify as members of the LGBT+ community. And by not defining him—which most likely means "is never mentioned in the film"—they're actually taking away an important moment of representation in a major franchise film, which is rare.
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