Studying and celebrating the different.
I've been doing some Star Trek watching lately. I fully watched all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for the first time. I watched Star Trek: Lower Decks just so my hubby wouldn't have to keep from spoiling it for me. I've moved on to "re"watching Star Trek: Enterprise. (Voyager is way too problematic for… Continue reading The gender neutral Cogenitor
Around a month from now, I'll be presenting "SuperTropes: Finding the difference between Narrative Prosthesis and Introduction to Disability in Marvel Comics" at the Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) at DragonCon in Atlanta, GA. I submitted it in my continuing side project of looking at representation of disability in superhero comic books. I kept… Continue reading Supers and disability
In working on getting ready to really start my dissertation, I am pleasantly surprised to find myself interested in musical theater as a site of research. That means I am finding interesting topics to look at within musical theater productions, but I am not a theater or performance studies scholar. It's the same way that… Continue reading Interdisciplinary sites of Deviancy
Tiny Shoulders is a documentary on Hulu about Barbie. It is a very well-done film that looks at the recent revamping of the iconic doll and the history. Part of why they are coming up with different body types available in the dolls is because people are saying the doll is too unrealistic. Duh. It's… Continue reading “Tiny Shoulders”
Deviate from the Norm 