Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Heading downtown today to the Chicago Comic Con … as a journalist. I’ll be meeting with Mikki Kendall to talk to her about diversity and genre and power and twitter and more, heading to a panel, and seeing what I can see. Follow along with me on twitter and instagram.
From The Mary Sue, Alysa Auriemma has a lovely essay about Captain America (in the context of the comic “Civil War”) and a new masculinity. After opening paragraphs on toxic masculinity and patriarchy, she writes: Captain America not only navigates masculinity, but he completely subverts and ultimately rejects our contemporary conceptions of what it means …
Foggy Nelson: “A blind old man taught you the ancient ways of martial arts. Isn’t that the plot to Kung Fu?” (Marvel’s Daredevil, Netflix, Episode 10) I’ve got a review of “Scenes of ordinary disability” in Daredevil coming out later today from Vice. Edit – Link is here!! In today’s blog, I want to say a …
It started when Rowan’s father posted her letter to Facebook and encouraged people to share it. I said, “how viral do you want to go? Like, I know an editor at The Mary Sue, and other places.” He replied, “Do it.” So I posted it to the blog and made this tweet below. Then I …