We are very proud to announce that the short film I co-wrote and co-directed with the amazing shannonlark, I AM MONSTER, will be screening at Texas Frightmare Weekend!! May 2 at 11 pm.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Shannon and I will be there so come on down and say HI!!
The suits worn by the Guild members were body bags that were found in a disused fire station dating back to the early 1920’s. The bags had actually been used several times, something that was kept from the cast members until after shooting was completed.
'If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone, just yourself. When you are in trouble or have a dilemma, ask yourself, “What's the important thing?” And when you wake up in the morning, ask yourself how you can be a better person, not just a better performer.”
Bob Fosse (shown pictured of the set of All thatJazz)
She’s the Post-Apocalyptic PIN UP with a bad-a$$ attitude. She does what she wants, where she wants, who she wants, and takes what she wants and doesn’t apologize to anybody. She has had crap happen to her and never let’s it stop her from being who she is, smart mouthed and sassy, geeky and trashy. G-d I F*n love this grrl!
Whoa, I made this in my Introduction to Printmaking class. Awesome to see it pop up on my Dash. Thanks for the credit!
Damn, Mae! That’s badass!
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The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that stories featuring female protagonists or written by female authors also apply to them. Boys fall in love. Boys want to be important. Boys have hopes and fears and dreams and ambitions. What boys also have is a sexist society in which they are belittled for “liking girl stuff.” Male is neutral, female is specific.
I heard someone mention that Sarah Rees Brennan’s THE DEMON’S LEXICON would be great for boys, but they’d never read it with that cover. Friends, then the problem is NOT with the book. It’s with the society that’s raising that boy. It’s with the community who inculcated that boy with the idea that he can’t read a book with an attractive guy on the cover.
Here’s how we solve the OMG SO MANY GIRLS IN YA problem: quit treating women like secondary appendages. Quit treating women’s art like it’s a niche, novelty creation only for girls. Quit teaching boys to fear the feminine, quit insisting that it’s a hardship for men to have to relate to anything that doesn’t specifically cater to them.
Because if I can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and want to grow up to be an archaeologist, there’s no reason at all that a boy shouldn’t be able to read THE DEMON’S LEXICON with its cover on. My friends, sexism doesn’t just hurt women, and our young men’s abysmal rate of attraction to literacy is the proof of it.
If you want to fix the male literary crisis, here’s your solution: