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Chatty AF 109: Winter 2020 Mid-Season Check-in (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter check in on the Winter 2020 season!
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Presenting the AniFem Review Database!
We’d hoped to have the review database complete by mid-February, and thanks to hard work and copious cups of coffee, we’ve done exactly that!
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The Gloriously Goofy, Geeky Girls of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Through both the character design and characterization of its three protagonists, Eizouken challenges a lot of the tropes that often loom over portrayals of nerdy, passionate teenage girls… and, if we’re being honest, teenage girls in general.
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Yuri is for Everyone: An analysis of yuri demographics and readership
Throughout its 100-year history, yuri has uniquely evolved in and moved about multiple markets, often existing in many simultaneously. It is by and for a variety of people: men, women, heterosexuals, queer people, everyone!
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Reclaiming the Witch Through Magical Girls
There comes a time in every girl’s life where she’s obsessed with one thing: the occult.
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How Kindred Spirits on the Roof both represents and exploits queer teen girls
The first time I read Kindred Spirits on the Roof, I was surprised and even grateful, because it often felt like the game was speaking to my questioning teenage self. It attempts to honestly portray queer female relationships, but sometimes blurs the line between depicting attraction and sensationalizing it.
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Chatty AF 108: Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare Retrospective (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Dee, and Chiaki sing the praises of LGBTQ+ manga Our Dreams at Dusk, discuss the importance of it being written by an X-gender and asexual author, and get a little personal about its impact.
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AniFem Fundraiser Update: January 2020
A new year, a new anime season, and a new website—look at us multitasking out here.
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2020 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
Did you know there were other worthwhile anime airing this season besides Keep Your Hands of Eizouken? It’s true! From ghosts to golems and MMOs to magical girls, winter 2020’s got a little something for everyone.
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The Great AniFem Makeover is Here!
The wait is over! We’ve officially launched the redesigned Anime Feminist, complete with a clean, accessible design, upgraded search and filter options, a revamped tagging system, and easier access to articles old and new.
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How Chihayafuru frames breastfeeding as an early parenthood challenge
Minutes before a high-stakes karuta match, Inokuma first must calm somebody who doesn’t respond to reason and certainly doesn’t know how to be patient for his meal. It’s a moment every new parent will experience at least once—when your own wants and needs butt heads with your obligations to your kid.
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Beautiful, Broken, and Queer: The complicated interplay of sexuality and trauma in Banana Fish
Ash is a problematic depiction of a queer assault survivor, but also one that claws open some of my most private, difficult wounds.
