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Marvel Comics

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Luke Cage: When Representation Isn’t Enough

  • Rebecca Bodenheimer
  • January 19, 2017
This show’s true strength is its diverse portrayal of African-American subjectivity and morality, amongst both the male and female characters.
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Welcome to the World of Wakanda

  • Katie O'Brien
  • July 29, 2016
Last week, the exciting news came out that Roxane Gay will be joining Ta-Nehisi Coates as a co-writer on the second Black Panther series, World of Wakanda. The New York Times looks…
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The First Trans Superhero

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • July 6, 2016
I send my scripts to at least three trans people every time, to make sure I am not speaking incorrectly, and that I am touching on points that would be…
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The Catch-22 of Representation

  • Katie O'Brien
  • June 24, 2016
Heroine Complex author Sarah Kuhn writes on her impulse as a child to dislike Jubilee, the Marvel superhero she was “supposed” to identify with as an Asian-American woman, and the…
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The Rumpus Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane

  • Sean Donovan
  • April 7, 2016
To hell with alien attacks; cinematically speaking, Hollywood’s destroying itself just fine.
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Afrofuturism and Optimism in Black Panther

  • Michelle Vider
  • November 2, 2015
At Lit Hub, Aaron Counts looks at writing afrofuturism in comics. Specifically, Counts discusses the upcoming run of Marvel’s Black Panther series by Ta-Nehisi Coates and how Coates’s nonfiction could…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Comic Book Nerd

  • Charley Locke
  • September 25, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of “The Case for Reparations,” Between the World and Me, and, most recently, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” will continue highlighting the societal…
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Fresh Comics #5: Who is Lee Marrs?

  • Monica Johnson
  • September 22, 2015
That’ll be the name of the documentary that gets made when people learn to love Lee Marrs. Who is Lee Mars? Honestly, I don’t really know who she is. I’m…
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Not So Literal

  • Roxie Pell
  • April 28, 2015
These days there are so many screens showing superheroes one can almost forget that they came from comics. Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Vulture about storytelling, representation, and the places where…
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What Gender Means

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 24, 2015
The Marvel universe is about to get a much-needed dose of perspective when G. Willow Wilson’s all-female team of Avengers arrives this May. NPR talked to Wilson about gender, identity,…
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Peter Parker, the Very Human Superhero

  • Casey Dayan
  • May 9, 2014
Take a peep at this The Millions essay for some reasons why Spider-man is such a likeable character. In the end, he was profiting off of violence, on fights that he…
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Spiderman Gets a Socially-Conscious Makeover

  • Sam Riley
  • August 4, 2011
Marvel Comics recently announced their latest secret identity—underneath the spider suit is Miles Morales, whose black and Hispanic makeup mark a significant change in the ethnically homogeneity of mainstream superhero…
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