Let’s Hear it for The Aces!
By Chris Ceary Asexual Awareness Week is upon us! Asexuality refers to a wide spectrum of people who feel either no sexual attraction, who feel a limited amount of attraction,….
Category: Comics Human Rights and Representation
DC Welcomes its Newest Bi-con: Jon Kent!
by Chris Ceary Jon Kent is bisexual! Jon Kent, former Superboy and current Superman is bisexual, canonically, officially. A recent interview with Tom Taylor, writer of Superman: Son of Kal-El,….
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….
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….
Why We Still Need Wonder Woman
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, but….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….