I think I have mentioned before that I took up boxing in March. This year will be the first year that women are allowed to box in the Olympics. HELL YEAH!
From feministing.com
Aswe’ve mentionedbefore, a good century after the men did it, female boxers will compete in the Olympics for the first time this summer. That means that for the first time in Olympic history both men and women will be competing in every sport.
Mother Jones has anawesome photo essay of the three American boxerswho have a shot at London 2012. Marlen Esparza,Queen Underwoodand Claressa Shields now head to the 2012 Women’s World Boxing Championships in China for the final hurdle to qualify for the Olympics.
Sadaf Rahimi’s already got my heart, but if these women make it too, I don’t know who I’ll be rooting for.
I’m obviously rooting for our Canadian gals, including my hometown girl, Mary Spencer and I’m really interested in East Indian boxer MC Mary Kom who has a truly inspiring story.
AND ON THAT NOTE CHECK OUT SOME COMIC LADY BOXERS:
Smallville’s Mia Dearden doing some MMA style fighting! Mia also uses a trick boxing glove arrow.
Wondy’s knock-out punch!
HQ’s boxing glove gag knock-out (of Catwoman! Who, by the way, was trained in boxing by Wildcat!)
And Peej v. Supergirl!
![stfuconservatives:
thedailywhat:
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.
“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”
Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing, by Nelson Ribeiro in Collected Editions, of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”
Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.
DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.
[death+taxes / robot6]
A gay marriage, a disabled superhero, AND the Avengers all in the same month? Marvel must have some real-life superheroes on the payroll.
This is pretty sweet — plus awesome mom and adorbz kid](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jd3cjjOf1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
The issue of female creators in comics has always been one to create some discussion but I can’t remember a time when the topic seemed to permeate the comics blogs and news sites as it did this past summer. It was within this maelstrom that creator Renae De Liz came up with the idea of creating an anthology made up of female creators. That in itself was not new - there have been other all-female anthologies. Marvel, for example, recently issued the series, Girl Comics featuring women created content. But Womanthology was not the result of an organization or a commercial comic publisher, it was the result of a grass roots effort. That effort which went from a single Tweet by organizer De Liz to a touchstone around women in comics due to it blowing away its fundraising goal on Kickstarter and raising $86,000 more than its original goal.
