Meet The Board: Jessica Plummer
The next in our series of Meet The Board interviews introduces Jessica Plummer, (or Poison Ivory on the forums).
What are your responsibilities?
I chair the incorporation committee and participate in general Board meetings and discussion. I also run Super. Girl., a Girl-Wonder subsite.
What experience do you have?
I’ve contributed to several publications as a writer, cartoonist, and editor. I also wrote both of my undergraduate theses on comics.
How did you become involved with Girl-Wonder.org?
I was around right from the start, when Mary Borsellino said “Hmm, I’m thinking of buying this domain…” and I asked for space on it.
What do you most hope to achieve for Girl-Wonder.org?
I’d love to see us become better equipped to support fledging female creators, both directly and because the industry will have become more accepting. I’d like to see us forge stronger ties with other diversity-oriented groups in comics fandom. I’d like to see more diverse, respectful portrayals of female characters in the comics I pick up in the store and know that our voices have been heard. And I want a little girl to be able to tie a towel around her neck and not have anyone tell her she can’t have that dream.
How would you respond to falling into a pit of radioactive waste that gave you inexplicable powers instead of cancer?
There’d probably be some indeterminate time period of dancing around and squealing before I whipped up a sensible spandex number and started stopping muggers in their tracks (plus delivering a stern talking-to to the amoral, cigar-chewing corporate fatcat who left that radioactive waste there for me to fall into, presumably after I got too close his Deep Dark Secret). I guess I’d also have to start wearing my glasses in my civilian identity, which is a total bummer.
Complete: If kidnapped by a cackling supervillain in the service of tormenting my heroic significant other(s), I would –
…demand to know why I hadn’t been kidnapped for my own intrinsic worth and give said supervillain a crash course on feminism. And then punch him. Or her. Or [insert appropriate pronoun here]. Either way there’d be punching.
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