John Sears | May 7, 2011
You might think that the ZRC would be happy that this has apparently been declared ‘Zombie Awareness Month’. After all, Zombies do need more awareness – of their plight in society, their legal disenfranchisement, of the media’s endless campaign of misinformation against them and of the need for reform. Sadly, however, that is precisely the [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
Uggh. Just… ugh: There is a plague sweeping the land, and you must prepare yourself. Are you ready for the creeping dread of unpaid bills? The sheer, unrelenting horror of bankruptcy? The non-stop terror that are creditors? Will you live to survive another day, or will you succumb to the apocalypse of Zombie Economics? … [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
Crank your outrage up to 11, people, it’s another Anti-Zombie book marketed at children: Pat the Zombie is an adult themed spoof of the children’s classic Pat the Zombie. By adult I do mean violence and not sex for those wondering. Sex with zombie bunnies? That just doesn’t sound good on any level! No this [...]
John Sears | May 3, 2011
Remember when we auctioned off a copy of the movie companion book for ‘By Her Hand, She Draws You Down’ for the Horde for Humanitarian Aid? Yeah, I thought you did. Well, now you can get the E-book version, which is *almost* as cool. We think you’ll like it. (A reminder: the ZRC Review of [...]
John Sears | April 17, 2011
Honestly, this guy gets around. We’ve talked about him before here on the ZRC blog, here and here. Recently he penned a short blog post that went up on Boston.com, about his theory as to the allure of ‘End of the World’ fiction. It’s worth a read for a remarkably candid glimpse into what’s wrong [...]
John Sears | April 10, 2011
A response to this post at The Zombie Feed. What is it that makes an author write a story attacking the Differently Animated? Sure, there’s the monetary angle, the fact that Anti-Zombie fiction is hot now and therefore it’s easier to get published, and the nasty anti-social tendencies of writers in general. (I know from [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
This kind of speaks for itself, but what the hey: The Walking Dead Girls is a behind-the-scenes look into zombie culture in the United States and the obsession into “”Sexy Female Zombies””. What is it about Zombie Bimbos or “”Zimbies”” that are starting to gain the worlds interest? Why are zombies now in mainstream culture [...]
John Sears | April 2, 2011
We last talked about Dr. Steven Schlozman when the ZRC highlighted how a Harvard professor was pushing hate in a seminar for Living Supremacists. As disturbing as that was, it pales in comparison to the news that Dr. Schlozman has a new ‘novel’ out leveraging his medical expertise to spread more hate and fear about [...]
John Sears | March 28, 2011
I understand, Zombie-phobes out there, I really do. I was once a lot like you. I was afraid of Zombies. I’d seen the movies, read the books, played the games, and internalized the messages of hate and fear of the Differently Animated so endemic to our culture. But then one day, it suddenly occurred to [...]
John Sears | March 25, 2011
When the ZRC goes to conventions I have to answer one question in particular a lot: if you’re with the Zombie Rights Campaign, why aren’t you a Zombie? I have a number of responses: ‘Why should only Zombies care about Zombie Rights? Do you have to be a member of an oppressed class to support [...]