I’ve never taken part in a meme before, so I figure this looks like a good place to start. (It’s all Claudia’s fault.) Two book blogs, Worducopia and Color Online, have started it (CORA standing for Color Online Reader Activist) with the intent to promote diversity in literature. And while prose books are the focus [...]
I changed my mind; I think Sundays will be a better day for this. Color Online hosts CORA this week: 1)Post a poem by a woman of color. Your choice must be a poet who has written in the last forty years. Do your best to avoid the most anthologized, popular poets unless poetry is [...]
The theme this week (as hosted by Worducopia) is world literature, and my pick is South African cartoonist Jonathan Zapiro, one of the most controversial artists to come out of the post-apartheid era. Here’s his bio from his website. He has gained notoriety over the past few years for his cartoons condemning African National Congress [...]
Wanna give a shout-out to Ali at Worducopia and Susan at Color Online and say thanks for starting this. It’s giving me an opportunity to actually provide opinions about things instead of posting news items all day and hopefully I’ve attracted a few new readers as a result. Susan says next month is Asian Heritage [...]
Ali’s theme this week has to do with challenging stereotypes. In examining a given book, the questions involved are: (1) Are the nonwhite characters too good to be true? (2) How and why does the author define race? (3) Is the cover art true to the story? (4) Who solves the problems in the story? [...]
No, I hadn’t forgotten about this; I’d just been sidetracked. (Plus CORA has gone bi-weekly.) This is one I’ve been looking forward to doing, since there are a small number of LGBT comics creators that rank among my favorites. In a previous CORA post I talked about Ellen Forney. I’ll add that in addition to [...]
Haven’t done this in awhile, but since Ali was kind enough to give me a shout-out this week, I figure that should be just enough of a incentive to get back into it. The theme this fortnight is other blogs and bloggers that are as different from you as possible. Greg McElhatton has been reviewing [...]
Science-fiction is the theme this time out (as supplied by Susan at Color Online), and I get to kill two birds with one stone because I can write about a book I’ve been meaning to talk about ever since I finished reading it a few weeks ago. It’s a prose book too, not a graphic [...]
