Avengers

Gimbling in the Wabe – Sneaking Into Comic Book Fandom by the Side Door

Every Wednesday is notable at my house, because it is the day that new releases hit the shelves of our local comic book store (waves at the guys at Comic Book College on Hennepin Ave). Fairly recently – within the last couple of years – my daughter and I have both become comic book fans. [….]

LitStaff Pick: Fandoms and General Geekiness

In celebration of ComicCon 2012, this week’s LitStaff Pick is all about fandoms and the general, beloved geekiness that word implies. This post covers all our thoughts, open letters to the characters we love, books we think would make great comics and simple posts on why we love the universes and fandoms we love. I [….]

Birthdays

On this day, November 12, in 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York. An icon in the early women’s rights movement, her
Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1848, became the cornerstone of the women’s suffrage efforts in the United States. Also an avid abolitionist, she was one of the few in the women’s rights movement who was also involved with women’s parental custody, property, employment and income rights, and rights surrounding divorce and birth control. She died of heart failure in New York in 1902, eighteen years before the passage of legislation giving women the right to vote.

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