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Courtney received her M.A. in English from Texas A&M University in 2011. She teaches composition to community college students to pay for her writing habit.

She runs a blog about fan culture, The Cosplay Feminist, and a group feminist Doctor Who blog, Doctor Her. You can also find her on Twitter and Tumblr.

She writes about feminism, geekdom, fan cultures, and science fiction. Right now, she is in the early stages of working on book-length projects about feminism and Doctor Who and about cosplay.


Perhaps you’ve noticed that female characters in comic books, video games, fantasy, and science fiction are often posed or dressed in oversexualized, even physically impossible, ways. Inspired by the gross presentation of women in their favorite media, the Tumblr blog The Hawkeye Initiative was founded in December 2012. In it, people submit drawings of Hawkeye (of the Avengers) posed in the sam...

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Proper Secrets
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The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin
The Black Book of Colors
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Ask The Passengers
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Dead River by Cyn Balog
Dead River
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Mae West
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
Mae West

John Green
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars




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