Except for the last one, there’s no particular order to these. The movies/TV shows are all since mid-June, the books & comics go back at least into May, maybe as far as April:
- Nimona (Heard about the movie, realized we owned the comic but somehow never read it. Watched the movie, then read the comic.)
- Magic for Liars
- The Echo Wife
- Poison Ivy, Vol 1: The Virtuous Cycle
- Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
- A Sleight of Shadows
- Doctor Aphra (Vol. 4: Crimson Reign and Vol. 5: The Spark Eternal)
- Deadloch
- Class of 07
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
- The Edge of Seventeen
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- Rage is a Wolf (what I’m currently reading)
Taking those in order we have protagonists who are: trans/gay (more so in the movie than the comic), female, female, female, female, female, female, female, female, female, female, female, and…female. I would have to go back for a proper analysis to be sure, but I suspect many (most?) of them wouldn’t pass a male version of the Bechdel Test.
Which is maybe why early in Rage is a Wolf after yet another douchey male character showed up, a little voice in my head sighed, “I need to read something with some proper dudes in it.” This was quickly followed by a dawning realization. “Oohhh…is this what it’s like for women and minoritized groups who hardly ever see themselves properly represented?”
Yes, I’m well aware this is a dilemma of my own making. It’s not like there’s a shortage of male-centric fiction out there. I just happen to have stumbled into a run of works that are less so, and had that weird little moment of clarity that seemed worth noting.