Good Comics for Kids
Tag: unlikeable characters
True Crime, Grief, and the Unlikeable Girl, a guest post by Megan Cooley Peterson
They don’t have all the answers. They make mistakes. There’s no sugar-coating their pain or flaws here. And there shouldn’t have to be. Give me all the unlikeable girls.
The “Unlikeable” Strong Filipino Girl, a guest post by Gail D. Villanueva
Let’s let strong Filipino girls be. Let’s let every strong kid be. Every child has a story to tell, and they all deserve to see themselves in the books they read, just like you and me.
Crafting Villains and Antiheroines in YA, a guest post by Rachel Menard
Once we let go of the concept that characters can only be inherently good or inherently bad, we can start creating complex book characters who are both and neither.
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Creating an Unlikeable Female Character, a guest post by Victory Witherkeigh
I hope my writing adds to the layers of representation for all the future brown girls, even in their “unlikeable” stages.
For Better and For Worser, a guest post by Jennifer Ziegler
If we writers only create characters that appeal to us – or to a certain group of readers – that will not portray our true world. We must also be able to write characters, situations, and themes that make us uncomfortable.
Why we should let girls read, and relate to, morally grey heroines, a guest post by Cyla Panin
Girl protagonists have a right to take the drags of whatever awful situation they’ve found themselves in and try to piece together a solution to reach their goals, even if that solution makes some people give them the side eye.
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Why I Like Complicated, Flawed, Perfectly Imperfect and Sometimes Downright Unlikeable Heroines (and You Should Too), a guest post by Brittany Geragotelis
We need our unlikeable moments in order to grow, learn and push us to become better humans. Also, sometimes all that separates a bad characteristic from a good one is how you choose to use it.
#SJYALit: From Aberrant Girl to Nasty Woman, a conversation between Elana K. Arnold and Amber J. Keyser
Introduction In the introduction to Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World, Kelly Jensen writes, “What unites feminists is the belief that every person–regardless of gender, class, education, race, sexuality, or ability–deserves equality.” This intersection between multiple social justice movements characterizes what we call Third Wave feminism, a term coined in the 1990s, and […]
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