Real Life

Talking about representation!

A couple of weeks ago, my boss said he had passed my info on to someone who was putting together a panel for Marcon (Multiple Alternative Realities Convention) about representation of disability in the media. They needed someone else to be on the panel and immediately thought of me. Of course I signed right up… Continue reading Talking about representation!

Comic Books, Popular Culture, Research

Supers and disability

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