Volunteers wanted for Ladies of Awesome. Also POCs of awesome.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

A formal call for volunteers/pimps/presentations etc will go out in the not-distant future, but since THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN has closed the school I'm seizing the moment to kick off an idea I've been mulling over.

Inspired in part by the success of these two categories in the Vid Oscars last year, and in part by morebliss's and my Epic Rewatches of Doom of the X-Files and SG-1, I want to see if we can put together a themed tag-team presentation in an area(s) that typically are under-represented. To be blunt, g/t is a sausage fest, and a pretty white one at that. And that's fine, because we're there to celebrate what we love, when we love it most. No harm, no foul, no criticism, no pressure.

BUT.

Watching 200 hours of X-Files in a fortnight reminded me intensely of how very, very much I was in love with Dana Scully when I was nineteen/twenty, lo these many years ago. And how sad I was that she'd never get her day in the sun/on the projector. And then I thought about my other big girl-crush, Lois Lane, and how outrageous it is that that big dumb alien Clark Kent gets all the airtime (not least from me) and so on.

SO.

I would LOVE to see a loosely connected set of segments on awesome women of fandom who otherwise never get their day. Is there someone that YOU love? alasen, what about Xena? vaudevilles, still feeling the Starbuck? labellementeuse, did Nikita live up to expectation? Or tell us why Batgirl was the best comic of 2011 (and Dan Didio should DIAF). Anyone and everyone else??? Just five or so minutes each, to encapsulate the Awesome, be it a couple of clips of key moments, or a songvid that sums her up, and/or a tiny summary of why you love her.

I see a secondary opportunity here too, in that it might coax those of you who are traditionally too reticent to present, or too busy to put together a whole Thing, into playing. Join me!

And then I thought, huh, we should also do non-white characters who never get their moment either. So if there's a character of colour who you love, please wow us with a tiny tribute to them.

Who's with me? Comment here to either volunteer or suggest characters. (But seriously, volunteer! Five minutes!)

Volunteers So Far:

Lois Lane - arysteia
Dana Scully - arysteia
Parker (Leverage) - morebliss
Hardison (Leverage) - morebliss
Elizabeth, Diana and June (White Collar) - china_shop
Aeryn Sun (Farscape) - china_shop
Loretta West (Outrageous Fortune) - blademistress
Cass Cain (Batgirl II) - stickmarionette
Steph Brown (Batgirl III) - labellementeuse
Renee Montoya (DC) - labellementeuse
Kono (Hawaii 5-0) - cross_stitchery
Kenzi (Lost Girl) - alasen
Olivia (Fringe) - the_antichris

[Alicia/Kalinda (The Good Wife) and Troy/Abed (Community) covered elsewhere by blademistress]
[Rizzoli and Isles and Suits covered elsewhere by cross_stitchery]

Comments

[morebliss.livejournal.com]

I'll do Parker from Leverage! (And will bring Hardison along for the ride.) :D

And I volunteer China to talk about all the awesome women in White Collar.

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

Olivia from Fringe! I'm sure either Blade or I could fettle something up.

[china_shop]

Aeryn Sun from Farscape (someone has to!)
Mary Shannon from In Plain Sight
Emily Lehman from Standoff
Cheryl and Loretta West from Outrageous Fortune
Kima from The Wire
Jane from Deadwood
Zoe from Firefly
Buffy
Britta and Shirley from Community
Kate Beckett from Castle

I'm happy to do some of these, but White Collar's my first priority and I get sick of the sound of my own voice very quickly. :-)

I could put together little clip shows for some of them, maybe?

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

I'd love to talk about Cassandra Cain, my favourite Batgirl. Does anybody else want to cover the other Batgirls? (I ask because I anticipate doing multiple other pimps, and you know how I ramble on. You're gonna hate the sound of my voice by the end.)

Also tossing up the idea of doing something about the awesome ladies of Fullmetal Alchemist, since we don't usually have much anime content. Would that work?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I will do Steph! Because I love her so! And because apparently it is my destiny. Anyway I can do her. (ha ha, do her. um, shut up, Tui. I would though.)

I might do Oracle as well and we can have a Batgirl trifecta? There's quite a lot to talk about w/Babs because of Recent Events. But I don't know I might get a little mad and overly um. well anyone who's been in a room with me talking about comics knows how I get.

VERY EXCITED FOR THIS. I could do these like it was my full-time job tbh.

[cross-stitchery.livejournal.com]

i'm not 100% sure i can come, but if i do, i'll put my hand up for Rizzoli @ Isles (not showing here yet) with 2 (count 'em!) female leads. and maybe Jessica from Suits (also not showing here yet) because Gina Torres is awesome with a capital O. and Kono from Hawai'i Five-O, also capital O awesome. and both PoC as well... if i can squeeze it in, i'll also add Shawn and Gus from Psych, because they're so slashable and yet somehow not the main slash pairing in the fandom. </unrealistic expectations>

[alasen.livejournal.com]

If I can get organised, I'd like to do something for Kenzi from Lost Girl. So awesome I named my cat after her halfway through the season.