136: The Year the Music Died

Death's holiday is over and he's back, hustlin' like the Blob in a pie-eating contest, so we're saying goodbye this week to the Purple One, Joey Coco, the Artist himself, Prince. Plus, once we're cleaned up and presentable, we hit THEY'RE NOT LIKE US in Comic Book Club, recoil in horror at Hollywood whitewashing in a Big Issues segment *AND* finally get our wishes granted when we talk to Jay and Miles (of X-Plain the X-Men) in the Emerald City!

#leavesuealone

Seriously, Death...take some personal time or something. You've done plenty.

Castle on a Cloud (of Blood)

JET goes back to the issues as we talk Hollywood sexism! Not cool, Jurassic World guy...not cool. Plus news, Star Trek, Princess Leia and Mr. Belvedere! You bring the parkour, I'll bring the grenade launcher!

Welcome back, Frank

Show notes

 

The original LA Times piece with Trevorrow

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-first-time-tentpole-directors-20150818-htmlstory.html

Variety stats on Women in Hollywood

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/number-of-female-directors-falls-over-17-year-period-study-finds-1201402686/

Women generally represent a larger percentage of moviegoing public
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/22-jump-street-box-office-haul-shows-power-of-female-crowds-1201220879/

Trevorrow comments further on Twitter

http://twitter.com/colintrevorrow/status/634785884156637184/photo/1

Related Vulture commentary

http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/colin-trevorrow-talks-lack-of-female-directors.html

Government investigation of Hollywood bias
http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/federal-govt-investigates-hollywood-gender-bias.html

Damon
https://twitter.com/MrPooni/status/643426795447013376?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
http://www.thewrap.com/matt-damon-has-twitter-seeing-red-over-project-greenlight-diversity-comment/

Lexi's interview with Vulture
http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/lexi-alexander-female-directors-in-hollywood.html

Lexi's essay
http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/an-oscar-nominated-director-gets-real

And a study from 1977 

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr12em712.pdf

Matthew Hammett Knott, friend of Lexi's

http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/confessions-from-above-the-celluloid-ceiling-the-truth-about-white-male-privilege-20151104

Blame Canada

http://www.themarysue.com/justin-trudeau-cabinet/ 

Trevorrow emails to SlashFilm

http://www.slashfilm.com/colin-trevorrow-female-filmmakers/

How Did This Get Made Episode

http://www.earwolf.com/episode/punisher-war-zone/

The Big Gang Theory

We speak truth to superpower this week as we tackle the subject of nerdsploitation! And if that wasn't enough, we talk Jessica Jones, Sicario AND have an interview with Snap Judgment's Ana Adlerstein! TOO MUCH SHOW

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Sexism in SFF Publishing

Here it is (finally). A punishing jeremiad of the SFWA debacle of 2013 and a rumination of the current state of sexism in science fiction and fantasy publishing. I'm not gonna lie to you: this is a beast but you will emerge from this with knowledge and power. And we do some news and we review It Follows!

Look at this tangle of thorns.



And there's a skit or something

Supplemental material:

Our survey results are published on the next chronological blog post

SL Huang’s GREAT timeline re: the SFWA situation

http://www.slhuang.com/blog/2013/07/02/a-timeline-of-the-2013-sfwa-controversies/

An artist’s breakdown of the Bulletin #200 cover

http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/chainmail-bikinis-and-other-sexism-in-science-fiction-and-literature/

The Daily Dot article that Fodera called “libel”

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/sfwa-sexism-sci-fi-nebulas-mary-kowal/

The Tumblr containing quotes from the sff.net listserv

http://informationjustwantstobefree.tumblr.com/

Cavendish and Shelley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein

VIDA compiles yearly stats on the gender parity in literary criticism and coverage outlets
http://www.vidaweb.org/the-count/

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/07/male-writers-continue-dominate-literary-criticism-vida-study-finds

Crisp’s comments on the lack of female author submissions

http://www.torbooks.co.uk/blog/2013/07/10/sexism-in-genre-publishing-a-publishers-perspective

Renay from LadyBusiness on Tumblr’s response

http://heyheyrenay.tumblr.com/post/55119586005/ladybusinessplus-the-sad-fact-is-we-cant

Author Rachel Bach 

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2013/07/sexism-and-female-scifi-author.html

Natalie Luhrs of pretty-terrible.com

http://www.pretty-terrible.com/2015/07/13/examine-your-priorities/

Liz Bourke

http://www.tor.com/2015/07/21/sleeps-with-monsters-founded-on-false-assumptions/

Sad Puppies

http://www.dailydot.com/geek/hugo-award-nominees-sad-puppies/

Aaaand a whole mess o’ links

http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/beyondherbook/?p=8152

http://ecatherine.com/dear-sfwa/

http://io9.com/5381793/is-science-fiction-feminized-or-is-it-sexist-both

http://io9.com/handy-charts-reveal-why-youve-never-heard-of-most-fema-478627713

http://strangehorizon.com/2013/20130715/renay-c.shtml

http://strangehorizons.com/2013/20130422/2sfcount-a.shtml

http://strangehorizons.com/2015/20150706/renay-c.shtml

http://www.annaguirre.com/archives/2013/06/02/this-week-in-sf/#comment-15272

http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/DetailPage.aspx?type=item&id=28341

http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/controversial-email-inflames-sexism-debate-sci-fi/

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/sfwa-sexism-sci-fi-nebulas-mary-kowal/

http://www.delilahpaints.blogspot.com/2013/06/on-sexism-in-publishing-or-why-im.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/book-gender_n_1324560.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/author-ursula-k-le-guin-lashes-out-at-amazon-and-sellouts-in-awards-speech-9873599.html

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/82930/VIDA-women-writers-magazines-book-reviews

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/09/factchecking_the_franzenfreude.html?from=rss

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/06/18/swfa_sexism_controversy_a_trade_bulletin_offends_its_readers_editor_jean.html

http://www.strangehorizons.com/blog/2013/04/clarke_commentary.shtml

http://www.strangehorizons.com/blog/2013/04/clarke_commentary_2.shtml

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/aug/08/science-fiction-invisible-women-recognition-status

http://www.themarysue.com/genre-publishing-gender-reviews/

https://culturallydisoriented.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/female-creators-in-science-fiction-and-fantasytelevision-the-stats/

https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/old-men-yelling-at-clouds-sfwa-lunacy/

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/gender-blah-blah-blah

https://literaryames.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/ursula-k-le-guin-confronting-sexism-in-sci-fi-publishing-since-1987/