Will Shetterly's Blog, page 120

The best Wonder Woman page and cover ever?

Yes, I'm setting the bar high, but how can you beat this?






If I was working for DC, I would pitch the return of Marya the Mexican Giant.



You can read the whole short story atPappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1646: Wonder Woman’s hot feet. Here's its cover:

Class trumps race in 1885: Amanda America Dickson

I was googling to compareHetty GreenwithMadam C. J. Walkerwhen I stumbled onSlave Becomes One of the Wealthiest Women in 19th Century America, a brief write-up about Amanda America Dickson.I thought she would make a fascinating subject for a book, but someone beat me to it with a book I should read:Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. From its

Tobacco Road: a must-have for any album about white trash

I was nine when the Nashville Teens' version came out. I loved it so much. I thought its power added to its insight. I still do. But now I think John D. Loudermilk's original 1960 version is better:



ETA Thanks to Daisy Deadhead in the comments, the Jefferson Airplane's version:

Republishing Liavek has officially begun

People regularly ask if the Liavek anthologies will ever be available as ebooks or republished in paper. The official answer is now "Yes and no." The rights to the stories are complicated in a few cases, so I suspect we'll end up releasing The Incompleat Liavek as ebooks.No promises, but I hope to have the first volume out by the end of the year.

Dance: The FLAMINGOS "Jump Children" (1959)

If the beginning doesn't do it for you, skip ahead a minute.

On 'speaking white' and 'speaking middle class'

The debate over 'speaking white'is about a black woman who objected to the phrase "speaking white". She insists it's just "speaking proper". What she misses is that "proper" is what the local ruling class speaks, and working-class white people tend to have an accent and grammar that's not the same. If a black person talked like the traditional Bronx cabbie or Mississippi "white trash", they

Nichelle Nichols on her Star Trek costume

BBC Online - Cult - Star Trek - Nichelle Nichols:

How did you feel about your costume. It was very revealing.

So? I was wearing them on the street. What's wrong with wearing them in the air? I wore 'em on airplanes. It was the era of the miniskirt. Everybody wore miniskirts.

It amazes me that people still make some remark about 'the revealing'. They revealed nothing. I had long black stockings

The first sentence at the HeForShe site is false

The first sentence atHeForShe: "The movement for gender equality was originally conceived as a struggle led by women for women."

Someone's lying or ignorant. The word "feminism" was coined by a man, the utopian socialist Charles Fourier. First and second wave feminism could have better been called egalitarian or equalist or, as Dora Montefiore argued in 1901, humanist movements. Feminism was

The difference between H. P. Lovecraft and the I.W.W.

The Old Racist from Providence |: "The workers of the I.W.W. were equally as ‘of their time’ as HPL and yet they did not express such vile opinions of people."


You just gotta love the I.W.W.

As for Lovecraft, I think anyone who's seriously interested in fantasy or supernatural horror should read at least one story by him, but that's no reason for him to be the face of the World Fantasy Award.

My favorite movies: Strictly Ballroom

Just saw Strictly Ballroomagain. Afterward, Emma said, "It's the best arts movie and the best sports movie ever." IMDB only gives it 7.3 out of 10, but Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 95%, which seems about right to me. Baz Luhrman's one of those great directors who can create an artificial world that's emotionally real, and this is my favorite movie of his. Though I think we'll be rewatching Moulin