Dreams for Women, or How this is me getting my feminist on

My friend Amanda Reaume has this amazing magazine based out of Vancouver called Antigone which you should seek out and read if you care about anything politically progressive and feminist. I know I should keep up with their great blog more often but whenever I do, it makes me smile (just their last blog post talked about President Laura Roslin - BSG FOREVER! - so you know you're in good hands) mostly because of the campaign "Dreams for Women" (which I spotlit already way back when I was getting mavericky and anti-Palin-ey).

The campaign is very simple:

What are your dreams for women?

What are your own dreams for yourself, your friends, your sisters, your daughters? Paint, draw, write, sketch or decoupage your dreams on a postcard and send it to the address below
Antigone MagazineC/O WILLA UBC
Box 61-6138 SUB Boulevard

Vancouver, BC, CanadaV6T 1Z1

We are raising the money in order to help launch the Antigone Foundation, a national foundation that will encourage young women aged 10-30 to get politically and civically engaged. Help support Antigone as we help to make the dreams of young women come true! We want submissions from all over the world – so forward this on!

Last time I did a Tina Fey/Sarah Palin 'dreams for women' postcard and continuing my love for Pop Culture (and inspired by this hilarious Twilight-based one I've attached below) here's a new one:

Whedon v Twilight or How I'm Seeing Double

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this whole Entertainment Weekly giving bi-weekly covers to Twilight is bullsh*t (seriously, off the top of my head I can think of about 4 covers this year alone). I know they sell, but of ALL the Fall films they had to choose this so-called "saga" for their cover story?

Thankfully, the peeps at TV Addict agree with me, and came up with an alternate cover: one I would MUCH rather buy/read:

Die Twilight, or How I (heart) Guillermo del Toro

"None of this romantic, languid young men sucking the necks of beautiful people." He reassures his hardcore horror fans that he will not be churning out more of the same. "I tried also to make the vampires as menacing and as real and as absolutely disgusting and as alien as possible," he promises."I tried to make them into a plague of creatures where you did not recognize their humanity — but our own inhumanity in them."

Del Toro on his take on Vampires for his upcoming books and how they're NOT like those /other/ books that are such a hit with the tweens

[via Vulture]