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Countering the Gaze: The Liberatory Potential of Bitch Planet’s Exploitation Aesthetic

Making use of the naturalized male gaze to challenge its reductive results and explore questions raised by our Bitch Planet Round Table.

8 May 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post.

“Is There Anything Left to be Shattered?”: Reading Dazzler in the #MeToo Moment

Dazzler the Movie as an important fictional prehistory to the #MeToo movement and stories about abusive media figures.

10 April 2018 in Gender, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Sexuality.

Hard Women, Hard Time: Bitch Planet Comics Studies Round Table (part three)

Part Three in a scholarly round table examining Kelly Sue DeConnik and Valentine De Landro’s Bitch Planet.

13 March 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post, Independent Comics, Round Table.

Bound By Law: Bitch Planet Comics Studies Round Table (part two)

Part Two in a scholarly round table examining Kelly Sue DeConnik and Valentine De Landro’s Bitch Planet.

8 March 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post, Race, Round Table.

Caged and Enraged: Bitch Planet Comics Studies Round Table (part one)

Part One in a scholarly round table examining Kelly Sue DeConnik and Valentine De Landro’s Bitch Planet.

6 March 2018 in Comic Studies, Gender, Guest Post, Round Table.

“Be Glad of Your Many Sisters” – The Insular and the Exceptional in Wonder Woman: The Circle

In this guest post, Bruno Savill de Jong explores Simone and the Dodsons re-imagining of Wonder Woman’s origin and its connection to Amazonian notions of womanhood.

5 December 2017 in DC Comics, Gender, Guest Post.

“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan

Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.

4 April 2017 in Film, Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Review.

Hip Hop Levels Up: Sammus & Pieces in Space

Sammus embraces the kind of freedom afforded to grassroots, independent artists who don’t have corporate overseers menacing with strange gazes and mandates to sellout.

1 November 2016 in Albums, Guest Post, Music, Review.

Archiving the Fringe: Chinese Indie Comics Collective Special Comix

Exploring the range of style, format, and content in China’s Special Comix 6.

4 October 2016 in Art, Comics, Guest Post, Independent Comics, Review.

Bumbling: DC Super Hero Girls and the White Racial Imagination

This Girl Power(!) needs to be a little more intersectional in its thinking.

10 May 2016 in DC Comics, Gender, Guest Post, TV.

Miles From Representation: On Needing More from Bendis’s Spider-Man

What do we need to do to get a decent Afro-Latinx superhero?

5 April 2016 in Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Race.

Back to the Old School: 5 Classic Hip Hop Albums You Need to Learn

“You know what you need to learn? Old school artists don’t always burn!”

22 September 2015 in Albums, Guest Post, Music.

Should We Marvel at a Black Captain America?

Sam Wilson’s characterization as the rugged individual and then his ascension to the role of Captain America are political messages that must be addressed beyond the tendency of media to oversimplify the political ramifications of things, or streamline complex histories

5 May 2015 in Guest Post, Marvel Comics, Race.

Humanity Not Included: DC’s Cyborg and the Mechanization of the Black Body

Could Cyborg be the comic book superhero representation of white supremacy’s effect on the black body? To have a black person transformed from a metaphorical machine to an actual one?

31 March 2015 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Race.

Titans Together! Superhero Sidekicks & The Anxiety of Influence

Understanding of the anxiety of influence is required in order to really understand sidekick superhero comics.

5 November 2013 in DC Comics, Guest Post, Literary Theory.

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