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So earlier today I saw this post by therealelizabethbennet, but the data was from 1988, so I thought I would do some updated calculations.
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Shawna Benson & DC Comics
The issue: Recently, it was announced by DC Comics that Shawna Benson and Julie Benson would be writing a series of new Batgirl and the Birds of Prey comics. In the press releases, they’re being praised for their writing on The 100 and at the WonderCon panel about DC Rebirth, Shawna & Julie promised to bring their experience and female representation to this new comic book.
However, Shawna’s experience goes far deeper than simply writing characters. As you may be aware, Shawna has a history of baiting and lying to fans in order to maintain viewers. She went as far as to venture into lesbian forums under the pseudonym “Your Friendly Neighborhood Lurker” to give false promises to LGBT fans about Lexa’s fate. Given her history, she cannot be trusted to give positive female representation to an industry which is in dire need for it.
As of today, several comic stores have publicly expressed that they do not plan on stocking the comics due to the controversy surrounding The 100 & its negative LGBT representation. But that’s not enough. Many more comic stores are likely unaware of the issues and our goal is to inform them of Shawna’s seedy past.
The campaign: Our campaign is two-fold. We have a draft letter for you to send to the bigger distributers regarding Ms. Benson’s abuse of the LGBT community. However, we also recognize that most comic shops are local and sometimes advocacy is best done in person.
So we are asking you, if you are comfortable, to go to your comic shops and talk to the manager. Tell them your concerns succinctly and honestly, letting them know that while you would like to see more comics by female authors, these writers cannot be trusted. If they manipulate some women, they do not stand for all women. If they manipulate one community, who is to say that they won’t now manipulate another community?
You can find your local comic shop by visiting: Comic store locator (US & Global)
Below is the sample letter for our larger distributers. Please feel free to make it personal and tailor it to your needs:
Sample letter
This is a short list of bigger comic distributers and online shops, but as mentioned above, contacting local stores is just as important and there is a huge number of them. Bring their attention to what is happening and why you will not be buying these comics.
Global/US distributors
Apple/itunes: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
Amazon: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
comiXology: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
Forbidden Planet: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
tfaw: Contact - Twitter
Entertainment Earth: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
Midtown Comics: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
Comic store locator (US & Global)
European/International
Forbidden Planet International: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
comiXology EU: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
archonia: Contact - Twitter - Facebook
Comic store directory (UK)
Graphic Policy is a site that posts about Comic related news so gaining their attention would be great as well. - Contact - Twitter - Facebook
If you’re from a non-English speaking country, you should still try to reach out to them and your local stores and bring the issue straight to them. Smaller stores are focused on profits and making them aware that this book isn’t something that you’d be interested in buying will make them think twice about stocking it in their stores.
If you need help translating the sample email, let me know and I’ll personally help as much as I can.
S3 E7 -“Thirteen” just aired in the UK on E4. Lots of UK Lexa fans are devastated. Great to see E4 stepping up and giving out support info unlike The CW.
Some great points raised here that I wasn’t aware of when originally posting this. This sheds light on why E4 offered out those support links: http://ukleskru.tumblr.com/
E4, ep307, and their viewer support measures
We have noticed a lot of posts and comments about E4 in regards to the way they aired ep307 and ran their twitter account during. Many of the posts and comments are about the way E4 used a viewer discretion warning on TV before the episode and provided support links on both TV and social media afterwards. The people making these posts and comments are missing a vital piece of information. In the days immediately after 307’s original airing on CW UKLeskru formed. Our aim was to push the LGBT Fans Deserve Better movement in the UK. We decided that a priority of ours would be to influence the actual airing of this episode on E4 in a way which might protect any LGBT viewer who was still unaware of what happened to Lexa or knew but was now actually going to see it. The very first thing UKLeskru did was to contact Channel4 & E4 and explicitly request that they run a viewer discretion warning before the episode and support services afterwards. They did this. Providing discretion warnings and post-episode support at times when necessary is a UK regulator requirement. The warnings and support are for the protection of the viewer. So when E4 were contacted in advance – by their viewers (by way of us) – to inform them that the warnings and support should accompany 307 when it eventually aired in the UK E4 could not ignore that request. The support links were also tweeted by E4 after the episode. One quick glance at their twitter TL will show you that their post-episode content included clips from 307. Sitting two tweets below their support links is an ‘episode highlight’ clip of Lexa dying. If E4 were truly interested in protecting their viewers they would not be tweeting the very triggers they are supposedly trying to help viewers recover from. Praising E4 is unwarranted. Using this as an opportunity to say E4 did it right while CW are doing it wrong is a mistake for two reasons: 1) it makes out that E4 ran their warning/support because they thought to (where CW never) without acknowledging that E4 were told to, and 2) it overshadows the fact that E4 are guilty of queerbaiting us in the same way CW did. Instead of applauding E4 we should be pushing them to explain their promo trailer which ‘leaked’ the Clexa love scene back in February. They knew she died when this trailer was made. They have so far declined to comment on it when asked. We have made a more thorough post about this subject here.
Hey guys!
I don’t know if you have heard, but we are doing a POSTCARD CAMPAIGN.
The point of the postcard campaign is that we send actual postcards to the CW with a short, personal message on what Lexa and Clexa has meant a to us. While twitter trends are impressive, tens of thousands of postcards from all over the world would certainly send a serious message. The postcards should be sent to this address:
The CW Network 3300 West Olive Avenue Burbank, CA 91505 United States
You can download and print templates from http://lgbtfansdeservebetter.com/resources/ or use any design of your own, or if you can do neither, just send a local postcard from wherever you are. (Please consider donating just $1 for any templates you use to The Trevor Project. Thank you!)
In addition to sending the actual postcard, take a picture of it and tweet it at @theCW and @LGBTFans. We’ll keep a gallery on this website where you can upload your photos of the postcards. If you can’t print, just buy any regular local postcard & follow the same rules.
International fans, to make the process easier, you can also use postcardsanywhere.com. For $1, they allow you to upload and send a printed postcard from anywhere in the world to any address in the United States.
my friends invited me to laser tag but I had to say no. too risky. what if the lasers sense my gay and turn into bullets
Look what’s trending AGAIN. This is honestly unreal. I’ve never seen something trend this much about a TV show. It’s not counting the 400K+ tweets from yesterday either, when Lexa trended on and off for 18 hours, only being kicked off the trends list for Lexa Deserved Better, which neared 200K tweets and trended for about 4 hours.
Thank you for speaking up about this. Thank you for making your voice heard. What happened on Thursday was a step backwards, and showing we aren’t standing for it is huge.
me: i thought i'd never get over the pain, but i did
myself: how?
me: by recognizing it for what it was. weakness.
myself: what is? loving fictional characters?
me: *nods*
myself: i could never do that
me: THEN YOU'RE IN FOR WILD RIDES MY FRIEND HOPE YOU KNOW YOU WILL BE FUCKED OVER MORE TIMES THAN YOU CAN COUNT do you know how bad it is to love fictional character do you understand someone else can just wake up and say eh i'll shoot them nbd and you'll be withoUT THEM????? FOREVER????? AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT?????????? DO YOU KNOW HOW UNFAIR THAT IS??????
myself: you're scaring me
me: GOOD!!!!!! YOU SHOULD BE!!!!!!!!!!! WE CRIED OURSELVES TO SLEEP!!! WE ALMOST THREW UP!!!!!
myself:
me: *drags myself to a corner until no character can crawl into their heart*
myself:
me: *falls deeper in love with a dead fictional character who meant the world to me and myself*
They deserved better.
Lexa - The 100 (2016)
Tara Maclay - Buffy The Vampire Slayer (2002)
Naomi Campbell - Skins (2013)
Silvia Castro - Los Hombres de Paco (2009)
Leslie Shay - Chicago Fire (2014)
Cristina - Tierra de Lobos (2013)
Maya St. Germain - Pretty Little Liars (2012)
After last night’s events, I needed to do this. All these amazing characters deserved so much better. I was going to include images of their deaths, but I refuse to. That’s not how I want to remember them. That’s NOT how they should be remembered. They deserved more than being an old cheap tv trope.
I know there are many more, so feel free to add more to this list.
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Talia Winters - Babylon 5 (1995)
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Xena - Xena: Warrior Princess (2001)
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Sandy Lopez - ER (2004)
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Helena Cain - Battlestar Galactica (2006)
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Victoria Hand - Agents of SHIELD (2014)
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Isabelle Hartley - Agents of SHIELD (2014)
Delphine Cormier - Orphan Black (2015)
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What The Signs Want
Aries: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Taurus: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Gemini: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Cancer: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Leo: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Virgo: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Libra: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Scorpio: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Sagittarius: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Capricorn: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Aquarius: For writers to stop killing lesbians
Pisces: For writers to stop killing lesbians
“Who’s your favorite character?”
The dead one.
Breaking News
revolutionary story twist that writers should consider
canonical lesbian couple exists, neither of them dies
the story ends with them both happy and together
this post is getting notes again and I can only assume that means that another fictional lesbian has died
writers please stop this shit is getting old
when a femslash ship takes a hit, we all feel it. im sorry, the 100 fandom. i dont know what happened but i can feel it. like the force. the lesbian force. i love yall
#we as the gay little jedis we all felt a great disturbance#like a hundred voices cried out and were silenced
I hear you. I understand. It sucks that you can’t enjoy a storyline because the history of popular media dictates that it will end in tragedy. I wish that were different. MAYBE SOMEDAY it will be.
Kim Shumway, on LGBT characters being killed off (x)
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lmao she actually deleted the original post. i saw this quote the other day and i went on her blog to search for her original post and it was there. but now it isn’t
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