Hullo,

Isn’t it wonderful that it either is or is nearly the weekend. Enjoy Fem Friday, your traditional herald of the incoming funtimes and, today, on the theme of disguises.

This whole comic about the origins of Wonder Woman is lovely, but I particularly enjoyed the pictures of Wonder Woman through the ages – always, more or less, fitting in with or exemplifying the style of her times, including the 1990s. I realise that we are the exact distance from the 90s where its clothes look the worst, and that in five years or so we are going to be all over that aesthetic as exemplifying powerful wymynhood, but for now:

https://thenib.com/what-does-wonder-woman-actually-represent

I don’t know if you watch The Americans, but it is easily one of my favourite things ever to have been on television. It’s about spies, so there are lots of wigs, disguises and really beautiful 80s clothes, and you can follow the fashion designer on Instagram. This is worth looking at even if you don’t know or like the television show, as it’s fun to see how people are thinking:

https://www.instagram.com/knirish/

Finally, here is more art. It's from Miranda Tacchia, and is about women who aren’t making any effort at all to disguise themselves or their lack of interest:

Her characters are mostly “unimpressed women”, each individual but with a common trait that “they don’t give a shit about you” she says, and drawn from personal experience. “Throughout my life, people have drawn attention to my demeanour, my lack of smiles or reactions to things. One time, when I was a kid, an adult said to me: ‘Miranda, you’re going to make some poor man really miserable someday.’ I assume he was referring to my inability to be effusive. That stayed with me, and though the situations I draw aren’t necessarily literal, the characters I create are an extension of me. I found a catharsis in drawing them not caring about how they’re being perceived, whether they’re talking to someone, being sexual, or just existing.”

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/miranda-tacchia-character-design-160517?dm_i=25MN%2C4YBYS%2CGBYDZN%2CIU1CN%2C1

Much love to all my unimpressed women,

Alex xx.