The Hidden Fortress: No Ivy League and Legacies of Whiteness
Interrogating the complex legacies of racial injustice in Hazel Newlevant’s No Ivy League and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude.
Your Favorite Superhero Sucks (Review)
A voice in the wilderness crying out against superheroic hegemony.
Robert Mayer’s Superfolks: Grist For The Mill
A resource that better writers can mine to develop something more sophisticated.
“I AM A MAN!” Machine Man, Robot Desire and Racial Assimilation
The generic “human” these robots want to be is a white human.
Succeeding in the Super-Biz
Imagining a different tradition for super-heroines.
On Fear of Music
Frank Zappa may have said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, but fuck Frank Zappa
Fill That Silence with Words
Junot Diaz on the importance of representation.
