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Twenty Years of Padme Deserving Better1
- Television and Film, Essays
- May 17, 2019
It was 2003 and I sat in the backseat of my aunt and uncle’s minivan watching Attack of the Clones with my cousins. The movie played on the car’s DVD player, making the action smaller than normal. I’d seen the movie before and at this point in the story, Padme and Anakin are trying not
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Remembering St. Mark’s Comics: Transitioning In the Comic Shop2
It’s early 2018. A middle-aged woman wanders into St Mark’s Comics looking to buy a book for her teenage son who likes Marvel movies. I pick out a couple trades featuring the Avengers and Spider-Man and tell her why I like them and she buys one and thanks me. She asks if I’ve ever worked
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Strategy vs. Spectacle: The Real Victims of Game of Thrones’ Battlefields0
- Television and Film, Essays
- May 5, 2019
Game of Thrones has fielded many on screen battles since first airing in 2011. Whether by land, water, and now by air, every battle has been epic in their own unique ways. But since leaving behind George R. R. Martin’s books and introducing dragons and White Walkers to the battlefield, the show has increasingly failed
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Fat Thor is a Joke. That’s Why I Love Him.4
- Essays, Television and Film
- May 3, 2019
Over the past week there’s been quite a few articles about the problems inherent to Thor’s new body shape in Avengers: Endgame, and before I get into my complicated feelings about what that means for me, as a fat person, I want to take a moment to affirm my agreement with the critics who have
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Sansa Dislikes Daenerys on Game of Thrones & That’s Fine0
- Television and Film, Essays
- April 21, 2019
The final season of Game of Thrones is all about conflict, and the premiere episode gave fans a long awaited meeting between Sansa Stark and Daenerys Targaryen. The two share similar backstories, both having survived the abuse, trauma, and machinations of men in order to become respected leaders in their own right. Together they’d make
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“Don’t Get Eaten by a Tiger”: The Presentation and Safety of Othered Children in FF0
Marvel Comics’ all-ages series FF (2012) is brought to us by team Matt Fraction and Mike, Lee, and Laura Allred and follows the adventures of the Future Foundation, a school for special youngsters, temporarily headed by Scott Lang, She-Hulk, Medusa, and pop singer Darla Deering a.k.a Miss Thing.
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"Bismuth" and Steven Universe's Racial Coding Problem
- Essays
- August 30, 2016
