(Behold?) The Vision’s Penis: The Presence of Absence in Mutant Romance Tales
Guest writer Anna Peppard’s meditation on presence and absence of the Vision’s penis – and if it even matters.
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.
Songs in Conversation: Those are Some Fragile Men, Baby Doll.
Defamiliarizing gender to highlight its constructedness.
“For a Good Time. . .” – Calling Up Sexist Impulses to Sell Video Games
The assumption of video games as a masculine space goes way back.
1999: Radical Possibilities of Apocalypse
1999’s appeal emerges from a sense of danger, from the scandalous possibilities of a morality unbound by the coming apocalypse, disguised as synth-heavy dance pop
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?
On Collecting Comics & Critical Nostalgia
Identity is a constant retcon.
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.
