gender equality

The United Nations Launches Gender Equality Comics Contest
The United Nations Launches Gender Equality Comics Contest
The United Nations Launches Gender Equality Comics Contest
Twenty years ago, close to 50000 activists met for the Fourth World Conference of Women in Beijing, where almost 200 Governments established 12 areas of critical concern regarding women's rights --- the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Considered one of the most progressive declarations for women's rights at the time, the 1995 Beijing Declaration still remains... well, an aspirational goal rather than something we all just got on with and achieved. This week, in line with the twentieth anniversary of the Declaration, UN Women and the European Commission have joined forces to hold a cartoon/comic competition around the theme of gender equality. Called 'Gender Equality: Picture It!', the competition invites artists from across the EU --- and across the EU only, with apologies to everybody else --- to submit comics and cartoons inspired by the Beijing Declaration. Entrants must be aged between 18-28, and no text is allowed within the final piece.
How a Three-Year-Old Girl Introduced Her Dad to Superhero Comics
How a Three-Year-Old Girl Introduced Her Dad to Superhero Comics
How a Three-Year-Old Girl Introduced Her Dad to Superhero Comics
It's very easy to examine at the state of the mainstream American comic book industry and its relationship with women and come with away with a diagnosis of "grim." With respect to very young women, like the seven-year-old girl who last year had to give up on her idol Starfire because of the character's updated and decidedly "adult" depiction in DC Comics' Red Hood and the Outl