Reviews
Feminist Frequency
Anita Sarkeesian and the Feminist Frequency team produce media criticism and penetrating feminist analysis with “a hint of humor, a dose of drollery, and a soupçon of snark.” They create video series like Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History, The FREQ Show, Queer Tropes and a large slate of podcasts. With their…
Black Girl Nerds
Black Girl Nerds is a pop culture online publication from the lens of nerdy Black women. Its founder, Jamie Broadnax, describes BGN as being “for ALL women who are just as nerdy as we are and the men who love and appreciate us. I named this site Black Girl Nerds because the concept of Black…
Movies Silently
Movies Silently is Fritzi Kramer, who creates reviews and articles on silent movies that are fun, accessible and enthusiastic. Her main focus is American films from the silent feature period: 1915-1929. She also covers some foreign silent, remakes, and homages to silent films, as well as later period silent films. She posts mini biographies of…
WWAC
WWAC (Women Write About Comics) is an Eisner Award-nominated online journal that employs a diverse group of intersectional, international feminists to provide equally diverse insight into the world of comic book culture and the comic book industry at large. WWAC covers a large variety of topics under the comic book umbrella. Reviews, reports on mainstream…
Comic Book Yeti
Comic Book Yeti, headed by founder and editor-in-chief Matt Ligeti, publishes simple ad free comic book reviews “by a simple yeti.” Comic Book Yeti’s reviews are straight forward with short paragraphs, bulleted lists, broken down into sections using real talk. And, they won’t take an afternoon to read. If you’re trying to find a comic…
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions describes itself as “the world’s only rock and roll talk show.” Each week on their syndicated talk show, nationally respected rock critics Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis interview artists, talk about pop culture and music industry news, review new record releases and give trends a historical context. And, because on Sound Opinions, “everyone’s a critic,” listeners are invited…
The Geekiary
The Geekiary is a blog started by fans, for fans. Proud members of many fandoms—Tumblr users and Twitter addicts, con goers, photographers, cosplayers, artists, and writers they’re consumers and analyzers of geeky media. They approach their work from a fan’s perspective, meaning they’re enthusiastic, passionate. As they say, themselves, they have FEELINGS. the Geekiary has…
The Lesbian Review
The Lesbian Review (TLR) is a website focused on reviewing lesbian fiction, lesbian movies and lesbian music. They even review fan fiction, publishing both written reviews and a podcast regularly. They claim to review only what they enjoy in order to “promote the best products and help lesbian and queer women find their next read/listen/watch.” Primarily focused on books, they’ve…
Uppercut
Uppercut is a site dedicated to looking at games and other forms of media through critical and diverse lenses. Through written, audio and video content, they challenge the status quo and shine a light on games and voices that don’t normally get to take center stage. The name, Uppercut, comes from the aspiration to punch…
theblerdgurl
theblerdgurl is Karama Horne, a cultural journalist, content creator, podcaster and geek, “parked at the intersection of geekdom and diversity.” She produces a regular live stream, theblerdgurlLIVE, and theblerdgurl podcast, both of which provide commentary and perspective from the often overlooked black nerd demographic, with a snarky female point of view. She interviews some of the…