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[image: A colored drawing Barbara Gordon as Oracle, seated in her wheelchair as she pushes buttons on her console with her left hand, seemingly giving a command or instructions into her headset. She is wearing a green shirt with a gold bat symbol, jeans, and white shoes. Her right hand is to her ear, and above her are four screens with the glowing Oracle symbol.]
Here’s my submission!
—Myisha Haynes
FIERCE AS HELL](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmgk0yc0UO1ql60eho1_500.jpg)
[image: A colored drawing Barbara Gordon as Oracle, seated in her wheelchair as she pushes buttons on her console with her left hand, seemingly giving a command or instructions into her headset. She is wearing a green shirt with a gold bat symbol, jeans, and white shoes. Her right hand is to her ear, and above her are four screens with the glowing Oracle symbol.]
Here’s my submission!
—Myisha Haynes
FIERCE AS HELL
You may want to illustrate your points with the comics themselves. Here are some relevant panels.
More images will be added as found or suggested.
[the Oracle of Barbara’s dream, rendered in shades of green and wearing the mask that would become Barbara’s symbol, speaks to her.
Oracle: You have lost nothing that matters. You have everything you need. Everything before leads up to now and now leads up to what shall be.]
[the spirit of Gotham speaks to Barbara through a young man. As she listens she closes her eyes, a tear slipping down her cheek.
Gotham: You serve me better this way than you ever did before.]
[Barbara stares forward, looking determined.
Barbara: Y’know, a lot of the time it’s like you Batguys want me to hold on to the past because you can’t get over it. Understand…I have.
I have a new life now. One I like - one that fulfils me. It’s not the same one I had before. But it’s good. Maybe even better.]
[Barbara Gordon grins as she sits in her wheelchair, a yellow backdrop of Gotham and her people in the background; a flock of white pigeons fly in front of her.
Narration: A little over a year has passed since my old life ended, since I died and was reborn. The shadows remain, but only to give contrast to the light.
I am no longer a distaff counterpart to someone else. I’m me - more me than I have ever been. My life is my own. I embrace it, and the light, with a deep, continuing joy.]
You are fabulous as always. Two of these will definitely be included.
I have way more followers than I deserve anyway, so this never bothers me.
I am not seeing ANY positive reaction to Babs becoming Batgirl again. ANY. At all.
Of course, our blogroll is primarily blogs that focus on social justice in comics a lot, but the major news op eds don’t seem to support Babsgirl either. And of course the blogroll has a lot of women bloggers , and as one article pointed out, most female fans aren’t Silver Age nostagia jerks as we tend to be newer, so women are more likely to be attached to Steph, Cass and Oracle.
Great job diversifying your audience and showing respect for women, DC!
So someone was saying that you can’t be a hero if you can’t throw kicks and punches, I know they weren’t serious at all. But here, she can kick ass just like the rest of the Bat-Fam.
I love this panel forever.
Seriously Tim? You thought Barbara Fucking Gordon needed to be rescued from assassins?
Such a great issue and such a great moment.
Babs does not need to Batsuit it up and be a distaff counterpart to waste assassins. She was defridged the moment she became Oracle and she became even more of an independent powerful character. This panel is just one of the many that prove it.
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My video of the History of the Batgirls set to Ani Difranco’s “All of This.”
I love all of them and their rich history, and losing it is intolerable. So here’s what we’re losing. I made this around the time Steph’s fourth issue as Batgirl was out?
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[image: drawing of Barbara Gordon, Oracle, in her green wheelchair with one hand up to a pair of headphones with the Oracle symbol of the side. Behind her are several screens with cords and images - the Gotham skyline with the bat symbol in the sky, the oracle face, black canary kicking a dude in the stomach, Black Bat, the backs of Wonder Woman and Batman]
My contribution!
- Zoe Maxine
This. is. the. best.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmfla19nKc1ql60eho1_500.png)
[image: drawing of Barbara Gordon, Oracle, in her green wheelchair with one hand up to a pair of headphones with the Oracle symbol of the side. Behind her are several screens with cords and images - the Gotham skyline with the bat symbol in the sky, the oracle face, black canary kicking a dude in the stomach, Black Bat, the backs of Wonder Woman and Batman]
My contribution!
- Zoe Maxine
This. is. the. best.
It’s official, DC has decided to reboot Oracle back to being Batgirl. This is a pretty crushing blow to disabled superhero comic fans, and those who support them.
You guys, I think we should do a big Oracle Draw-a-thon, to support visibility for disabled characters in mainstream comics,…
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[image: a colored image of Oracle in her wheelchair, moving towards the camera and looking upwards and away from the viewer. she wears a button-up shirt and jeans, and she seems happy.]
This is so damn pretty.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhvd05Cxa1ql60eho1_500.jpg)
