Tag: women writers

Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible

Read Maria Popova’s piece at Brainpickings.com.

Le Guin refers to the words of onetime slave and poet Phillis Wheatley: “In every human Breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Female Creators Receive Record Number of Eisner Award Nominations

Check out the names at The Mary Sue.

PEOPLE OF COLOR (women and otherwise) are also represented among this year’s Eisner Award noms. The list includes:

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Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda for Monstress; Valentine De Landro for Bitch Planet; Erica Henderson for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead; Guojing for The Only Child; Jillian Tamaki for SuperMutant Magic Academy; Riad Sattouf for The Arab of the Future; John Leguizamo (!) and Shamus Beyale for Ghetto Clown; Cliff Chiang for Paper Girls; Dustin Nguyen for Descender; Frances Gateward and John Jennings for The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art; and Tony Ong for The Eternaut.

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