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Sep. 21st, 2014 08:02 pmMore diversity linkblogging, woo!
Have I mentioned lately that I find Dreamworks to be infinitely superior to Pixar and that, of the two, Dreamworks is the storyteller of my heart while Pixar is the storyteller of, "Eh, I guess it was kinda pretty?" Because that is definitely the case.
Exhibit A: Trailer for "Home", which about an alien invasion and stars a young black woman. (Possibly a pre-teen, since she was apparently 11 or something in the book(???), but given the pitch of her voice and the fact that she owns/drives a car, I guessed older.) Someone reserve me a ticket NOW, because I am watching the hell out of this movie ASAP.
In other diversity news, Corinne Duyvis would like to announce that her debut novel, Otherbound, is currently on sale at Amazon Kindle for under $5 USD. To quote directly from her Tumblr account: "It’s got alternate worlds, trauma, rogue princesses, disabled & queer protags of color, storms, death curses—and some other things I guess?"
If you want to support diverse characters and authors (the author is autistic, bi, and ADD) while saving a little money, and don't mind doing so through Amazon, this could be the book for you! You can read Jim C. Hines' review of the book here, and Bisexual Books' review here. Both reviews naturally contain some spoilers.
Just for extra fun and information, the Bisexual Books review opens like so:
Have I mentioned lately that I find Dreamworks to be infinitely superior to Pixar and that, of the two, Dreamworks is the storyteller of my heart while Pixar is the storyteller of, "Eh, I guess it was kinda pretty?" Because that is definitely the case.
Exhibit A: Trailer for "Home", which about an alien invasion and stars a young black woman. (Possibly a pre-teen, since she was apparently 11 or something in the book(???), but given the pitch of her voice and the fact that she owns/drives a car, I guessed older.) Someone reserve me a ticket NOW, because I am watching the hell out of this movie ASAP.
In other diversity news, Corinne Duyvis would like to announce that her debut novel, Otherbound, is currently on sale at Amazon Kindle for under $5 USD. To quote directly from her Tumblr account: "It’s got alternate worlds, trauma, rogue princesses, disabled & queer protags of color, storms, death curses—and some other things I guess?"
If you want to support diverse characters and authors (the author is autistic, bi, and ADD) while saving a little money, and don't mind doing so through Amazon, this could be the book for you! You can read Jim C. Hines' review of the book here, and Bisexual Books' review here. Both reviews naturally contain some spoilers.
Just for extra fun and information, the Bisexual Books review opens like so:
I think we’ve all seen those posts where some douchebro is like “not every thing needs a bisexual low-income mute woman of color who use sign language or a one-legged epileptic Latino guy”. Those examples are done in the spirit of spiteful condescension, like it would be TOTALLY RIDICULOUS to have a story like that. Which is why it gives me exceptional pleasure to say:
Go home boys, Corinne Duyvis has just pwned you all.
