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Comics and Human Rights: An Interview with G. Willow Wilson
Maria Werdine Norris is a final year PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is on the British Counterterrorism strategy and legislation, with a focus on...
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Comics and Human Rights: Something More. Saga and Representation in Comics
Samantha Cross is better described as a poly-geek, soaking up as much information as possible in order to better appreciate the things she loves. An historian and archivist, she’s a fan of comic books,...
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Comics and Human Rights: Thinking About Us – Queer Inclusion in Comics
MJ Feuerborn is an American queer activist, freelance journalist, and comics enthusiast. She writes for Women Write About Comics and Comicosity. Her comics and culture commentary can be found on her...
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Comics and Human Rights: Bitch Planet: Yes, All Women
Amy Devine is a geek-of-all trades with an avid love of history, comics and literature. A former radio-journalist, she now spends most of her creative energy on slam poetry and her new column on...
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Comics and Human Rights: An Interview with Kelly Sue Deconnick
Maria Werdine Norris is a final year PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is on the British Counterterrorism strategy and legislation, with a focus on...
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Comics and Human Rights: Visibility and the Black Nerd Girl
CG is a twentysomething Blerdette from New Jersey. She found her start in nerd culture when she watched the first episode of Sailor Moon on Toonami, and hasn’t looked back since. When she’s not...
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Comics and Human Rights: The Erasure of X-Women in Days of Future Past
Carolyn Cocca is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Jailbait: The Politics of...
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Comics and Human Rights: Oracle and Representations of Disability in...
Carolyn Cocca is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Jailbait: The Politics of...
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Comics and Human Rights: An Interview with the Gotham Academy Team.
Maria Werdine Norris is a final year PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is on the British Counterterrorism strategy and legislation, with a focus on...
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Comics and Human Rights: The Forgotten Women of Comics
Laura Sneddon is a comics journalist, writing for the mainstream UK press with a particular focus on women and feminism in comics. With an MLitt in Comic Studies, do not offend her chair leg of truth;...
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“We’re Gonna March!” A Nine-Year Old’s Review of March, Books One and Two
By Carolyn Cocca and Anna Cocca Goodman From the time Anna was born, I’ve wanted to share my pop culture loves with her, but many of the current comics I read or tv shows I watch just aren’t...
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Taking the Long Way: The Super-Heroine’s Struggle for Respect
Taking the Long Way: The Super-Heroine’s Struggle for Respect An essay by Bob Reyer Click here for the introduction to Comics, Human Rights and Representation Week. As in the real world struggle for...
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Diversity Spotlight: Iron Fist
Diversity Spotlight: Iron Fist By Joe DellaPenna There has been a recent call for diversity in the Marvel cinematic universe and a push to cast an Asian-American as the lead in Iron Fist. In comics,...
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Comic Book Awards, We Have A Problem
In the wake of the Angoulême Grand Prix debacle, I started the painful process of looking over the numbers over the years… the numbers being the ratio of men to women winners for various comic book...
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Diversity and Its Costs in Comics
Diversity. If I were to ask you what this work means, I could easily get enough answers that it would by synonymous with the words actual definition. Diversity.com defines the word as follows: The...
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To: Feminism, Love: Fat Me
To: Feminism, Love: Fat Me By Melissa Megan I’ve never been a member of Fat Club, until now. Ok, until about 2 years ago. At first, I wasn’t happy about my new club status. I’ve spent my whole life...
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Marvel So White: What’s the Deal with Iron Fist and Other Heroes?
Being a fan of Marvel and anything related to it is a recurring roller coaster of excitement, dread, and then resignation. That isn’t to say that the House of Ideas doesn’t make hits or that they’re...
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We still need Wonder Woman. The 75th anniversary of her first appearance coincides with intense, public, necessary conversations about gender and power. She may be a decades-old fictional character,...
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Comics and Human rights Week: Wonder Woman and The Trickiness of Superheroines
Carolyn Cocca is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Jailbait: The Politics of...
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Taking the Long Way: The Super-Heroine’s Struggle for Respect
Taking the Long Way: The Super-Heroine’s Struggle for Respect An essay by Bob Reyer With 8 March being International Women’s Day, I thought I’d re-post this piece that was originally written for our...
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