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Not So Fast! The Case for Revisiting the Costume Designs of 1990’s The Flash TV Show

Considering how 1990’s The Flash on CBS was a pivotal development to the television superhero genre through fashion.

26 January 2021 in DC Comics, Guest Post, TV.

“On the Edge of Greatness”: First Ones’ Tech and the Non-Binary Politics of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Looking beyond representation in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and towards the contexts that inform it to consider the narrative structures used to build queer storyworlds.

1 December 2020 in Gender, Queer, Sexuality, TV.

“But We’re Out of Time”: Queer(ed) Nostalgia and The WB’s Birds of Prey

Thinking through how personal narratives also become mediated narratives that enable queer world-building through the example of The WB’s Birds of Prey.

24 March 2020 in DC Comics, Queer, TV.

Where Everybody Knows You’re Men: NBC’s Cheers & White American Masculinity

When manhood and nation are synonymous women just become a way for men measure patriotism.

5 March 2019 in Gender, TV.

“Am I Black Enough For You?” The Respectability of CW’s Black Lightning

The CW’s Black Lighting represents the split between Black respectability and radical politics in a singular figure.

22 May 2018 in DC Comics, Race, TV.

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.

Do Zombie Lives Matter? Fear the Walking Dead & Zombie Politics

Putting Fear the Walking Dead’s allusion to national zeitgeist regarding police brutality into context.

15 September 2015 in Politics, Race, TV.

“We have to go back!” Getting Lost in the Serial Podcast

Endings shouldn’t get more weight than middles.

9 December 2014 in Radio, TV.

“This Sorrowful Life” – Making Time to Redeem Racists

The Walking dead trots out the old trope of the racist you love to hate, or maybe that’s (don’t really) hate to love.

28 March 2013 in Race, Review, TV.

Where ‘The Walking Dead’ Fails Viewers When It Comes to Race

Just because the world has gone to hell doesn’t mean that the prejudices and privileges of white people won’t bubble up to betray you.

10 December 2012 in Race, TV.

Comic Store Disappointment

It is marginally better than Comic Book Men, that really isn’t saying much.

14 July 2012 in Comics, Review, TV.

Hip-Hop History Comic

A hip-hop battle in comic form? Who drew this? I want a whole series!

13 June 2012 in Comics, Music, TV.
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