This Week in AniFem: September 26, 2020 (Patreon)

Hey there, AniFam! Let’s kick off this digest with some terrific news: weekly podcast transcripts are GO! Assuming our Patreon numbers stay steady through the end of the month, we’ll have enough to transcribe future podcasts beginning in October. 

And this was all possible because of you! Y’all stepped up in a big way during a tough time, and we’re beyond grateful for your support.

Fundraiser Drive Details

Now, granted, we’ve only just barely hit the amount we need on Patreon, which means that if anybody has to drop off, we’re back to being in the red. We’re still hoping for some additional backers to help us secure a buffer for patron dips and/or any surprise expenses, so please keep promoting us on social media or recommending us to any friends who’d like our work and might be interested in kicking a $1 or more our way each month. We really appreciate it!

As for the transcript backlog that we’re funding through our new Ko-fi account, we’ve hit the 20% mark, which means we can cover 10 of the 50 backlogged transcripts! We’re pretty stoked about that, too. We’re talking to our transcribers and planning to start on those soon, so there shouldn’t be any down-time on us producing backlog transcripts. 

As thanks to everyone (and as a little reward to ourselves), we decided to take the rest of the week off from promoting fundraisers on social media. But we’ve still got 40 transcripts to cover, so rest assured we’ll be back to gently nudge everyone with Team Rocket gifs again soon.

Same Style, New ‘Do

You may have noticed some slight design changes at AniFem and on some of our social media platforms today. We’re tweaking our logos to better match our current color scheme, as well as updating our social media avatars to a new one featuring the oh-so-cute rose-carrying fox created by Teri Archibald for our Indiegogo fundraiser. We hope you like ‘em!

We’ve been meaning to do this for a while and the fundraiser drive seemed like as good a time as any to give ourselves a minor makeover. We’ll likely keep quietly playing with them over the coming days, so don’t be surprised if you see another few tweaks before all is said and done.

The Week in Review

[Transcript] Chatty AF 70: DARLING in the FRANXX Postmortem

Caitlin, Peter, and special guest Natasha (with guest appearances from ANN’s Steve and Micchy) break down the disastrous blockbuster mecha show of 2018.  Y’all remember this mess, right? 

We don’t normally do full retrospectives on series we’re not more-or-less positive about, but FRANXX was so popular and got so very much wrong about gender and sexuality that we just had to come back to it one last time... and bury it six feet under.

[Talk] Resources and Fundraisers: September 2020

In our September monthly resources post, the focus is on police brutality and funds for Black trans folks. Read up, help out if you can, and keep fighting the good fight, folks.

[Links] Weekly Round-Up, 16-22 September 2020: Adorned by Chi, Mine-kun is Asexual, and Clickbait Listicles

This week’s intersectional feminist news and articles from AniFem and beyond. Feminist-relevant manga reviews, a Zimbabwean teacher discusses living in Japan, some super-cute new pins from Adorned by Chi, and more.

[Interview] Katarina of Irodori Comics on translating doujinshi to English

AniFem's Chiaki and Irodori's Katarina chat about Irodori’s new “Lite” line for all-ages doujinshi, including LGBTQ+ titles like Mine-kun is Asexual and the upcoming This is Love.

[Perspectives] Against the World: Madoka Rebellion, saviorism, and abolitionist schooling

Returning contributor Anthony Sun Prickett revisits Madoka’s controversial sequel film. They discuss how the film resonated with them as an educator working to change an oppressive system, and questions whether a system that still runs on suffering, even with a reward at the end, is a just one.