I'm Sayra. I'm pretty much over at lj all the time but I keep meaning to spend more time over this away. I have been trying to read more female centric and femslash fic of late because it struck me a while ago that although I am a girl, and although almost all of my friends are female, and although I am a feminist who rails against how few awesome women there are around in fiction I.... tend to just read endless boyslash or fic about male characters. And it made me... unhappy. So I want to... redress the balance I guess. Find what is good, what are the tropes, be more demonstrative of my pride and interest and enthusiasm for women and female characters.
In terms of what I actually do.... well I'm working on an all femslash first line bingo for kink_bingo and I'm a mod over on LJ's femslash_land (although its having the summer off at the moment). Oh, and I have endless endless conversations about JJ/Emily on Criminal Minds. :D
What I would like, in terms of discussions, well maybe we could champion female characters or discuss history of femslash because- you know what- I've heard plenty about boyslash but femslash... really not heard that much. I'm also kind of with dagas_isa on the whole "we should start talking about what women do well and less on the fail of certain shows" even though I still have a tendancy to go right to that arguement (because, omg, there is so much fail!!). So, yeah, it would be good to have discussions but I think we want to try and not make it either too self-congratulatory or as self-defeating as many conversations about women characters are.
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Date: 2011-08-03 10:16 pm (UTC)I'm Sayra. I'm pretty much over at lj all the time but I keep meaning to spend more time over this away. I have been trying to read more female centric and femslash fic of late because it struck me a while ago that although I am a girl, and although almost all of my friends are female, and although I am a feminist who rails against how few awesome women there are around in fiction I.... tend to just read endless boyslash or fic about male characters. And it made me... unhappy. So I want to... redress the balance I guess. Find what is good, what are the tropes, be more demonstrative of my pride and interest and enthusiasm for women and female characters.
In terms of what I actually do.... well I'm working on an all femslash first line bingo for
What I would like, in terms of discussions, well maybe we could champion female characters or discuss history of femslash because- you know what- I've heard plenty about boyslash but femslash... really not heard that much. I'm also kind of with