"...submissions dealing with gender, sexism, and other areas important to feminine speculative literature are particularly welcome."
Back in the Plasticine, Will and I co-edited a black and white comics magazine with a male cartoonist friend of ours. One contributor, Minneapolis writer/artist Lisa Blackshear, consistently sent us funny, thought-provoking comics about sexual politics, ideas of beauty, shoes--whatever she felt like, really.
Then she sent us a funny, thought-provoking comic about a woman buying bananas at the supermarket. The bananas were hanging from one of those upright display poles...the base of which was skewering a South American guy, a farm worker. The woman is shocked by the display, but she sidles guiltily up, grabs a bunch of bananas, and goes through the checkout with a sigh of relief. I thought it was the best depiction of liberal guilt I'd seen in a long time.
But our co-editor's response to the cartoon was, "Why can't she stick to women's issues?"
"Other areas important to feminine [sic] speculative literature" are ALL areas. Women, being human, are concerned with the fate of their species and their universe, just as men, being human, are concerned with the wellbeing of, and justice for, all sexes.
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Back in the Plasticine, Will and I co-edited a black and white comics magazine with a male cartoonist friend of ours. One contributor, Minneapolis writer/artist Lisa Blackshear, consistently sent us funny, thought-provoking comics about sexual politics, ideas of beauty, shoes--whatever she felt like, really.
Then she sent us a funny, thought-provoking comic about a woman buying bananas at the supermarket. The bananas were hanging from one of those upright display poles...the base of which was skewering a South American guy, a farm worker. The woman is shocked by the display, but she sidles guiltily up, grabs a bunch of bananas, and goes through the checkout with a sigh of relief. I thought it was the best depiction of liberal guilt I'd seen in a long time.
But our co-editor's response to the cartoon was, "Why can't she stick to women's issues?"
"Other areas important to feminine [sic] speculative literature" are ALL areas. Women, being human, are concerned with the fate of their species and their universe, just as men, being human, are concerned with the wellbeing of, and justice for, all sexes.