#women in publishing

[that-butch-archivist]

"Untitled" by Parminder Sekhon, 1994

source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

[jacciturner]

I've got two big announcements! One is a $50 off coupon for this incredible conference and one is a cover reveal for my upcoming book!

[haggishlyhagging]

Sexual Politics is out of print. The Dialectic of Sex is out of print. What women have to do is come to terms with the fact that we live in a society that simply censors better than state censorship. People have got to come to terms with the power of the publishing industry and the media in controlling thought and expression. They have to understand that it is an issue of power and money and people have to be less passive in relation to books. People have to take their money which they don't have much of and they have to buy books by feminist writers. They have to develop a much more sophisticated understanding of how the book industry works. A hard-cover book like Letters from a War Zone was virtually published dead. If it's still in bookstores in two months it will be a miracle. They have to understand that everything that they hear all the time about how everything can be published in this country is a lie and that part of the social function of the publishing industry is to buy up the rights to and then obliterate certain books so that nobody can get them. They have to stop thinking that they live in the liberal dreamworld of equality where fairness has already been achieved. It hasn't been achieved. You can be equal in your heart but it doesn't make you equal in the world. I think that the refusal to understand what happens to books by women goes along with this liberal refusal to acknowledge that power is a reality and we're not the ones who have it. What I'm saying is that women have got to start facing reality. You cannot build any kind of movement for change on wishful thinking. The wishful thinking is that we already have what it is we want and what it is we need. We don't have it. Women who want to write and communicate, which in a big country is hard to do—it's getting harder for them, not easier. There isn't more access, there is less access. People have got to take the economics of the publishing industry seriously and understand that very few writers will survive who do not write according to the demands of the marketplace, by which I mean essentially the demands of turning out books that you can consume as passively as a television show. That's sort of the standard.

-Andrea Dworkin, “Dworkin on Dworkin” in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

MORRIS

This typeface, by Norwegian designer Therese Ølberg, was inspired William Morris's organic forms, particularly his wallpaper designs. The font is based on Bodoni Old Style. All the letters are designed in Illustrator, then cut out in wood using a laser cutter, and finally the wooden letters are placed on a letterpress and printed.

These images are from The Making of Artistic Typefaces by 50 international designers published in 2016 by SendPoints Publishing in Hong Kong.

View more designs from The Making of Artistic Typefaces.

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[echofromtheabyss]

For much of my life, so much media was made by men. Men with working class and military backgrounds. Chain smoking war veterans and high school diploma engineers and sleaze writers. Journalists who were 20th century journalists and not 21st century journalists. Men who were actually pretty familiar and relatable because they're like guys in my family.

This made me think, you know what would be great, if women made some of this stuff too. One day, feminism will win. We will get to be in the public sphere just like these same men. And now women do all of these things! Women with MFAs.

[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

[obstinaterixatrix]

here are all the recs I posted for femslash february 2024...! each individual rec post can be found in my femslash feb recs tag. I actually thought I wasn't going to be able to do this because work got super chaotic, but in the end I couldn't bear to skip out on a leap year. that's a whole extra day for yuri.

last year I focused on official releases, so this year I wanted to focus on series that aren't technically officially available (plus a french-japanese film). fan translations are always a dicey for artists/translators/publishers/etc because obviously they need to get paid... but yuri's already such an overlooked genre that—in an official capacity—we end up with a couple drops from what's already a pretty small pool. I read hana to hoshi about a decade ago, and I keep submitting it to the seven seas survey for licensure! and yet!! no dice. and even when there are official releases, sometimes they just... disappear!? wish you were gone was licensed and then taken down, so for a while the only way to read it (if you missed out on buying it) was the fan translation. I think it's important to support artists and official releases, and also, to appreciate the thankless endeavor(/crime) of scanlation.

hope yall find something you like!

[sleepnoises]

went to life drawing yesterday and today was reminded (by someone being a bit of a wuss about the concept of life drawing) of meg cabot young adult novel ready or not (2005) where the teen protag goes to a life drawing class with her boyfriend and freaks out about A Nude Man!! and then gets over it

in looking up this novel i (re?)discovered that it's mainly about the protagonist deciding whether to sleep with said boyfriend, who is the president's son, and also disagreeing with the president's anti birth control policies on live television. meg cabot staying terrifyingly cutting edge unforch

the other main thing i remember about this book was the challenge in an art class to draw an egg without using white. i think about that once every three months maybe.

also: would love to have a life drawing class where i could be scandalized by a nude man because this new one miiiight have a thin pretty woman model policy. Again

[renlo]

I made a children's book!

Happy to announce that I've published my third book (and second children's book)! 'I Can Do Anything!' is a brief 20+ page story that follows Jaden as he wonders what he wants to be when he grows up. The book ends with a few coloring pages as well!

I had fun writing this brief, silly little book. It's available on Amazon right now!

[jacciturner]

Use this link to register

[shokveyv]

shut up

[leechjuice]

MY ANGSTY GAY CANNIBAL BOOK IS OUT NOW!

IN THE END, YOU KILL US BOTH is a novel about a lesbian arsonist rebuilding her life after a violent trauma, and the texan loner that inspires her to seek revenge on her abusers. it's also a story about relentless grief, hunger, and the unending staircase of healing.

🩸

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Pulp - Ginger Stories (Nov1928)

Art by Enoch Bolles

King Publishing Co.

[transformersbrainrot]

Till All Are One Annual 2017 Windblade I love you so much....

I don't remember having any particular reaction to her design the first time I read The Chosen One but I just went back to reread it and.... she makes me feel things

[jeres-red-g-string]

AYOOO????

[pollsnatural]

The minor spn characters rarely interact with each other, especially the women. It goes without saying how rare it is for spn women to have meaningful relationships (in the broad sense of the word) with other women. So.