Studying and celebrating the different.
As I finished up my daily NaNoWriMo writings for the day, I realized something: I need to set more time aside for these writing sessions. These past seven days of writing have been mostly brain dumps on a topic, with some revising of existing work. I think I'm ready to do more than that now.… Continue reading More than a brain dump
Back when I started grad school, a friend in the cohort ahead of mine told us about NaNoWriMo and how she uses it not to write a novel, but to work on her thesis. I thought it was a neat idea. I still think it's a neat idea. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2021
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
One of the things that has been drawing my academic attention is the comic book series Bitch Planet. BP is a dystopian, feminist, sci-fi comic set in the not-too-distant future where the world is ruled by patriarchy, literally. It is what these alt-right a----- would love to see: women belong in the home, bearing children, raising them,… Continue reading Falling in love with non-compliancy
Sorry about the title. But I've had "I've Got a Theory" from the Buffy episode "Once More With Feeling" stuck in my head lately. For the past two school years, I have been lucky enough to be a masters student in the Department of Popular Culture at BGSU. It is the only program of its kind in the… Continue reading I have a theory, it’s in my thesis!
The more I read various Marvel titles, especially any X-Men titles, the more I see groups in our world portrayed. Some are more obvious than others. The "Disabled" This is where I first really noticing the similarities. Both groups have a history of inequality because of their physical or mental abilities, oppression, experimentation, and legal… Continue reading X-Men as a Mirror
Deviate from the Norm 