📺 Watched Sailor Moon, Season 1, episodes 1 & 2.

📺 Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season 1 episodes:

• 1 “Ambush”
• 2 “Rising Malevolence”
• 3 “Shadow of Malevolence”
• 4 “Destroy Malevolence”
• 5 “Rookies”
• 6 “Downfall of a Droid”

I really enjoyed Yoda being awesome in “Ambush,” but the rest of these are a bit space battle-heavy for my tastes. I watched most of them while cleaning, so I didn’t pay super close attention. I’m looking forward to later seasons when things involve more diplomacy.

📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episode 8, “A Jewish Girl Walks into the Apollo…”

📺 Watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3, episodes:

4 “Hands!”
5 “It’s Comedy or Cabbage”
6 “Kind of Bleu”
7 “Marvelous Radio”

I loved how they handled Midge’s dynamic with Lenny Bruce. I’m also really digging Liza Weil’s performance as Carole Keen.

📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 8: Redemption”

📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 7: The Reckoning”

📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 6: The Prisoner”

📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger”

📺 Watched The Mandalorian “Chapter 4: Sanctuary”

When I learned Noelle Stevenson was showrunning a She-Ra reboot, I was psyched. I haven’t read Lumberjanes or Nimona yet, but her Avengers fan art and D&D tweets are top-notch. I was super into She-Ra as a kid, and I love that this new one is called She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

I’m on board with modern girl culture, at least as it’s manifesting in animation and comic books. I was talking to another parent recently who said she’d been afraid to let her daughter watch My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, but was pleasantly surprised by how feminist it was.

I recommended she look into DC SuperHero Girls and see if she would feel okay sharing that with her daughter, because I think it has a similar vibe.

And I need to read the “new” Jem and the Holograms comic, I know.

I love that the stories I’m seeing about girls and young women in these media place the girls at the center and let them have their own adventures. Romance tends to be sidelined. The girls are dealing with identity development and relationship building. Each of these properties has characters who are so different from each other in their interests and personalities. We’re seeing that there’s no one right way to be a girl or a woman, and I love that. The other thing I love is how they take colors and art styles that are coded feminine and use them to communicate that you don’t have to choose between strength and femininity, and that there are many different ways to be strong.

I’m sure none of them is perfect and I know that they are vehicles for selling toys, but I’m still excited about them.

I would buy that She-Ra poster and hang it on my office wall.

(By the way, DC SuperHero Girls creator Shea Fontana is going to be at ALA Annual and you can bet I’ll be at her session. DC SuperHero Girls is an incredibly accessible way to get to know the DC universe and figure out which characters appeal to you. I say this as an inveterate Marvel loyalist.)