John Sears | August 8, 2011
We talk a lot on the ZRC blog about the tendency for Anti-Zombie prejudice to lead people to classify anything or anyone they personally dislike as a ‘Zombie’. A lot. We even have a tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word‘, here on the blog. However we’ve rarely seen a case this brazen: One [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2011
We like to highlight public events featuring Zombies participating peacefully in civic discourse, or even just the Living dressing as Differently Animated citizens, in some circumstances. The ZRC remains wary and vigilant against exploitation and defamation of the Differently Animated community at these protests, however, and unfortunately we sometimes see just that: Those in Downtown [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2011
We’ve had our issues with, well, most of the mainstream press here at the ZRC. That’s why I’ve got searchable tags for Journamalism *and* Mainstream Media, after all. Still, the New York Times seems to want to make a name for itself with narrow-minded Anti-Zombie vision, and this latest take on recent Zombie literature is [...]
John Sears | August 6, 2011
No, this isn’t one of those obnoxious ‘vs’ competitions where Zombies are forced to fight some fictional villains for sport, but rather, a comparison of the treatment of two sets of ‘villains’ by the public. Zombies, as we’ve documented, get demagogued and fearmongered against by libraries, directing this miseducation even at vulnerable children and impressionable [...]
John Sears | August 6, 2011
We brought you news here on the ZRC blog before about a Minnesota public library’s tragic decision to use its position in the community to spread Anti-Zombie prejudice to children. That was a ghastly story and quite shocking. Horrifyingly, it seems to be only one instance.. of a trend: There have been unconfirmed reports of [...]
John Sears | August 4, 2011
Given the explosion of Anti-Zombie and outright Living Supremacist fiction over the last few years, it was probably inevitable that we would see publishing imprints dedicated explicitly to publishing more attacks on the Differently Animated. And so it has come to pass with ‘Print is Dead’: Print Is Dead is up and shambling, keeping us [...]
John Sears | August 1, 2011
You know, I’ve seen movies where the Undead intersect with the martial arts before, and they’re usually terrible, not just for Zombie Rights, but just, you know, as films. So when I see a blurb about a film called ‘Ninja Zombies’ I start to groan a bit before I even click on the link: “Ninja [...]
John Sears | July 31, 2011
Here’s a depressing tale about how some libraries in Minnesota have decided that hate literature is the best way to promote reading to impressionable kids: Dakota County library sessions on zombie survival expands kids’ braaaaaains! … Zombies are the flesh-eating walking dead of movies and games. Should they ever actually roam the earth, Dakota County [...]
John Sears | July 30, 2011
I’ve thought that Anti-Zombie media was getting more militaristic for some time, whether it’s the transition from early Survival Horror games like Resident Evil to more martial and ammunition-laden titles like Left 4 Dead and the Call of Duty Zombie levels. Likewise, Army Times recently disgraced itself peddling violent Anti-Zombie imagery to the American military [...]
John Sears | July 29, 2011
The ZRC has good friends in Australia, and we want them to know we’re not trying to pick on their government specifically. However, the fact remains that the politics surrounding the Differently Animated in Australia are, remarkably, in many ways even *less* congenial than in the United States or Europe. We’ve previously reported on the [...]