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Tag Archives: gender

Girl, You’ll Be an Invisible Woman Soon: Defining Serial Characters

Thinking through how readers conceptualize a character and the degree to which such a characterization can be independent of how the character acts in the actual stories she appears in.

29 November 2016 in Gender, Marvel Comics.

Songs in Conversation: Those are Some Fragile Men, Baby Doll.

Defamiliarizing gender to highlight its constructedness.

7 June 2016 in Gender, Music, Songs in Conversation.

“I Know It When I See It”- Race, Relatability, and Reading Practice

The ways fans of color engage with characters and stories can re-circuit and re-interpret those stories in ways that provide the kind of productive identification that challenges that tired old repetitive and thoughtless representation.

7 April 2015 in Comics, Race.

On Collecting Comics & Critical Nostalgia

Identity is a constant retcon.

8 July 2014 in Authenticity, Comics, Meta.

The Who’s “I’m a Boy” as Transgender Anthem

Gender identity is over-determined.

29 April 2014 in Gender, Music, Queer.

Dial H: I Would Prefer Not To. . .

This issue uses the title’s meta-position as simultaneously within and without the superhero comic genre to comment on depictions of race in comics.

22 January 2013 in DC Comics, Race.

Misogyny to the Rescue!

If I were Sue Richards I would have divorced Reed’s ass a long time ago. .

29 November 2012 in Gender, Marvel Comics.

Gender Policing “This Woman’s Work”

The very act of singing what he is singing is the woman’s work he sings about.

1 August 2012 in Gender, Music, Queer, Sexuality, Songs in Conversation.
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