Why You Should Read the New Spider-Woman
The hope of the new Spider-Woman series.
“I’m Looking for a Weird Love, Baby. . .” – Romance Comics & the Strangeness of the Normative
The heteronormative values these romance comics reinforce are really friggin’ queer.
#FireRickRemender?: Thinking Through Gender, Disproportionate Aging & Sexual Consent in Superhero Comics
Do alternate dimensions and the flow of time in superhero comics confuse and complicate issues of sex and consent?
The Who’s “I’m a Boy” as Transgender Anthem
Gender identity is over-determined.
XX-Men: The Failures of Brian Wood’s All-Woman X-Team
X-Men’s record of including women is still only good in relation to the rest of superhero comics.
“Let’s Rewrite Some History”: Captain Marvel & Feminist Revisionism
The first major story arc in DeConnick’s series is an attempt to write Ms./Captain Marvel into a revisionist feminist text – a laudable attempt to make manifest the purported feminist subtext of the character.
Oglaf: Sexual Phantasmagoria (NSFW)
The shock of the queer in Oglaf undermines a genre where uber-masculine hyper-hetero adventures are the norm.
It’s a Wonder, Wonder Woman
More than 40 years later, Wonder Woman still has to deal with the same masculine hostility.
Succeeding in the Super-Biz
Imagining a different tradition for super-heroines.
Snot-Nosed Hulk
If Banner’s anger is inextricable from his immediate social world, the Hulk’s anger is more basic, primal and constant. It is the anger of being.
Misogyny to the Rescue!
If I were Sue Richards I would have divorced Reed’s ass a long time ago. .
Violence is the Normalizing Force
Subaltern characters must punch their way into the “mainstream.”
Captain Marvel & More Black Iron Man
Rhodey’s armor allows him to literally don the guise of a successful white man, to “pass” in the world of (mostly) white superheroes.
Gender Policing “This Woman’s Work”
The very act of singing what he is singing is the woman’s work he sings about.
Spider-Man is Black
Spider-man is Black. Or at least, he could be. . .
The Middle Spaces 