The Geeks OUT Blog
Enjoy our extensive catalogue of geeky media coverage with an eye towards the LGBTQ+ community. Our editors strive to provide a diverse range of topics, genres, figures, and perspectives just for you.
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Interview: Mariko Tamaki
Mariko Tamaki is an artist and writer of mixed Japanese Canadian and Jewish Canadian descent, known for her graphic novels Skim and This One Summer (co-created with her cousin Jillian Tamaki). Recurring themes in her work include becoming, identity, and queerness....
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Review: The Black Tides of Heaven
The Black Tides of Heaven by nonbinary queer Singaporean writer JY Yang is an impressive feat of both subtly and depth. While fantasy isn't usually known for its brevity, Yang manages to deliver a richly textured world packed with fascinating characters in a...
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Make it Queer, You Cowards
Queer-baiting has become the lazy writer's way of incorporating queer characters without doing the work of actually representing the queer community. It's enough to drag queer viewers and readers along, hoping that someday these characters might actually...
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The Queer Content Conundrum
Queer content is at its truest when it's created by queer artists, writers, designers, or other creators. Stories written by people outside of the queer experience tend to be full of tropes and wild inaccuracies. And it's difficult to get queer content to audiences...
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A White Guy’s Guide to Whitewashing
With Black Panther breaking records and the character promising to be the best part of Infinity War, Hollywood and geek culture are learning a lesson about the value of representation. Unfortunately, Black Panther will be appearing alongside my personal least favorite...
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What Counts as Queer Content?
What counts as authentic queer content? It seems natural that anything includes a queer character should be included. But as representation in media is (slowly) on the rise, it's be time for more specificity. Because the queer community deserves decisive and authentic...
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Review: Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1
It's 1953. The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities is running full steam on their public interrogations of "subversives and deviants." Snagglepuss is a successful Broadway playwright with a secret. This is how the stage is set in the latest Hanna Barbera...
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Can We Agree to Boycott Bryan Singer?
In 1997, Bryan Singer was accused by three underage extras, including a 14-year-old, of filming them nude for a shower scene in Apt Pupil. In April 2014, Singer was accused of drugging and raping Michael Egan in Hawaii at a party when Egan was 17 years old. In 2016,...
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Daniel Dae Kim in Hellboy Is Better, but Still Problematic
Image courtesy of Gizmodo Daniel Dae Kim will play Ben Daimio in the third Hellboy film, Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, a role previously offered to obviously white actor Ed Skrein. To Skrein’s credit, he turned down the role, saying, in part, "[R]epresenting this...
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Extracting Beauty from the Darkest of Places
Seven years ago, I started working on a comic book with my good friend Reed Olsen. It would go on to become the series Dream Crasher, which we are now self-publishing through Kickstarter. Dream Crasher is a 12-chapter story about a group of children who survive a...