From Prism Comics:
Minneapolis, MN – On Tuesday, July 3rd, Pride High creator Tommy Roddy and his character Suravi were honored by Blind Friends, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People (BFLAG) at their 2007 convention in Minneapolis.
“BFLAG recognizes Suravi for her exemplary outlook on life and her ‘can do’ attitude. A fifteen year old blind, straight A, lesbian student…she is just the inspiration future BFLAG members need,” said Butch Arnold, President of BFLAG.
When I first picked up Pride High, Suravi was the character I immediately fell in love with. She’s an intriguing character, heroic and a total badass in every way. I am so glad that there are other people who get to benefit from reading about Suravi and the rest of the cast of Pride High.
Get the rest of the story here:
Pride High Character and Creator Honored by BFLAG
Good Criticism is NEVER Dated
Two not-particularly-recent but still damn good articles on the X-Men:
In X-Men’s Last Stand: One for Patriarchy, Mekani Themba Nixon criticizes “the disempowerment and basic all around ‘girlification’ of X-Men leader Storm,” voicing many of my own misgivings about the movie version of the character.
In Beyond Children of the Atom: Black Politics, White Minds and the X-Men, Morpheus Reloaded examines the idea of X-Men as a metaphor for the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, in which Charles Xavier serves as an analog for Martin Luther King, and Magneto, for Malcolm X. He extends the metaphor further, as well, looking at characters and situations in X-Men as reflections of a frustratingly narrow white perspective on black people and politics in America.