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The 13th Doctor Is Your Go-To Style Icon This Season

By Tristan George November 11, 2018

Try and tell me the 13th Doctor’s style isn’t effortlessly perfect. I dare you.

The response to the 13th Doctor’s costume has been overwhelmingly positive since long before her season premiered. In fact, if you pick up a copy of The Sartorial Geek Magazine Issue 03, it features a great article all about her style. Feminine but practical and not losing that quirky Doctor charm, there really is a lot to love about her look. Her trenchcoat, her lace-up boots, her ethereally cool blue culottes, and who could forget the yellow suspenders? What’s not to love?

I’ll answer that for you: nothing, obviously. She is flawless and so is her outfit. So flawless, in fact, that I’m urging you all to take a page out of her style book at your earliest convenience. While suspenders and culottes might be a little harder for your average human to embrace, the current rainbow stripe trend will make it especially easy to embrace your inner doctor this fall.

Fictional Style Icon: Clara Oswald

By Tristan George October 18, 2018

In the spirit of transparency, I’ll admit I’ve never been consistent in watching and keeping up with Doctor Who. Even the biggest Whovian can admit that it’s a bit of a commitment, and I just never found the time to be involved enough where I understood everything that was happening at all times. Of course, then it was announced Jodie Whittaker would take the reigns of the TARDIS next season, making The Doctor a woman for the first time. This was as good a reason as any to finally get completely caught up. And in my rewatch, I found appreciation for a companion that got a lot of undeserved hate: Clara Oswald.

Clara seemed to be the scapegoat for a lot of fans’ problems with seasons 7-9 of Doctor Who. And those problems had nothing to do with her “being the worst.” Often, these “problems” were really just poorly-executed storylines and/or misogyny. I’m not jumping on that bandwagon, though. I really enjoyed Clara. I thought, despite a lot of things, her character developed over those 2.5 seasons and her relationship with The Doctor was the most complex one I’ve seen yet.

But, you know what I’m really here to talk about. And that’s how Clara Oswald is the best-dressed companion Doctor Who has seen yet, so let’s take a peek into her wardrobe.

Except For That Time: Political and Social Awareness in Doctor Who

By Stephen Webb July 18, 2018

We heard it when Jodie Whittaker was announced as the Doctor. The first time we saw a photo of the new ethnically diverse companions Yasmin, Ryan, and Graham we heard it. When Segun Akinola, a black man, was recently named the new composer of Doctor Who we heard it. We heard the cries and tweets of people who identify as long time fans of Doctor Who degrading the show because it has become “too politically correct and too social justice warrior influenced.”

Episode 023: Fandom is Fandom with Kara Dennison

By Jordan Ellis June 20, 2018

This episode is sponsored by Jordandene and Logan Arch.

If you’ve been hanging out on The Sartorial Geek blog or reading our magazine, the name Kara Dennison might sound familiar to you. She’s one of our favorite blog contributors. Kara wrote an article about gatekeeping called “Fandom is Fandom” in issue two of our magazine.

3 Historical Women Who Should Cross Paths With The Doctor

By Stephen Webb June 10, 2018

If Bill and Ted, the Legends of Tomorrow, and Sam Beckett have taught us anything…

It is that time travel stories are often at their most memorable when the protagonists visit historical figures. With over 50 years of television, audio plays, & books, Doctor Who has featured such varied characters as Marco Polo, HG Wells, & Adolf Hitler.

Since its return in 2005, Doctor Who has also featured strong female historical characters. (Such as Elizabeth I, Agatha Christie, & Madame De Pompadour.) However, there are countless fascinating women throughout history who would be very interesting traveling partners for the Doctor on his adventures throughout time and space.

Here are three historical women who I’d love to see featured in Doctor Who. And the crazy fan ideas of how I’d like to see that play out . . .

A Tale of Three Cons: What I Learned Going From Celeb-Hunting Noob to Cosplay Competitor in Less Than One Year

By Betty Rhoades June 7, 2018

It all started because of David Tennant.

Doesn’t it always? I had never been to any kind of comic convention before. But when I saw that the Tenth Doctor himself would be appearing at my local con (Awesome Con!!!) back in 2017, I knew I had to get tickets. I bought the full weekend David Tennant VIP pass. This would guarantee a photo and autograph. AND I’d get preferred seating at his main stage panel. To be honest, in the beginning, I figured I’d probably ONLY do DT-related stuff. And that I’d be perfectly happy with my con experience.

Origin Story: How My Husband and David Tennant Reawakened My True Geekiness

By Betty Rhoades April 27, 2018

I’m pretty sure I was always a geek.

I was one of the “smart kids” in high school. I was wholly obsessed with musical theater. Instead of getting drunk on the weekends with the “cool kids,” I hung out at the local coffee shop with my also-geeky friends and played guitar and talked about books. I distinctly remember the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy back in 1997. My pals and I got in line super early for each film, ensuring that we’d be in the front row of the theater for the ultimate hard-core fan experience. It didn’t matter how many times we had seen the movies. We ALWAYS found some nuance to discuss or some wild theory to argue.

5 Reasons Why It’s Important the Doctor is Female

By Stephen Webb February 28, 2018

I remember sitting on a panel at a Doctor Who convention in 2013 when the question was asked: “How would you feel about the 13th Doctor being a woman?” At the time, I hadn’t given it much thought. I answered something to the effect of, “I’d prefer the Doctor to be a man. But, I would be fine with it if it happened.”

5 Tips for Introducing Your Kids to Your Favorite Geeky Fandom

By Stephen Webb February 12, 2018

“What age should my son be before I show him to Doctor Who?” “My daughter is 6, she’s ready for Harry Potter, right?”

I’ve attended and participated in numerous “Introducing Kids to Fandom” & “Parenting Geeks” panels at conventions that have featured child psychologists, educators, religious figures, writers, and other stay-at-home parents. The one definitive thing I’ve learned is that everyone has an equally strong, but wildly varying opinion on these types of questions.