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Final Fantasy XV: Rethinking Gender Balance and Thematic Elements, 

in Blog/Entertainment/Weekly news

  I have the pleasure of being a Generation-X gamer whose first system was an NES and have owned every Nintendo and Sony console since I started gaming for my eighth birthday not with Super Mario Bros., but with the original Final Fantasy. The movies and cartoons and breakfast cereal that I grew up with aren’t a source of nostalgic enjoyment, but plain old enjoyment–if I never grew out of something, I never missed it, and neither did my friends. My life has been pretty boring and uneventful, even my coming out was fairly nonchalant when one day I started…

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Nine Badass Lesbian Superheros and Supervillains of Color 

in Art & Culture

Representation is important. And if you’re a woman, a person of color, and/or someone who identifies somewhere on the spectrum of “not straight,” representation can be pretty damn hard to come by – especially when it comes to the ass-kicking world of comic books. Comics have had their own interesting history with representation.  Marvel’s Stan Lee, in a 2000 interview with The Guardian, discussed his ideas behind creating the X-Men, saying, “I couldn’t have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or zapped with gamma rays, and it occurred to me that if I just said that they were mutants, it would…

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