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Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Debate3
- Bookmarked, Essays, News, Opinion
- January 20, 2020
On New Year’s Day, the latest issue of the digital science fiction magazine Clarkesworld went live. The line-up included a mixture of established talents and new names; in the latter category was Isabel Fall, who contributed a story entitled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter.” Isabell Fall’s piece was available on the website for
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Casting Call: Why a Mixed-Race Kate Bishop in Hawkeye Makes Sense0
- Television and Film, Opinion
- December 31, 2019
When I saw that Hailee Steinfield was the frontrunner to play Kate Bishop in Disney+’s Hawkeye, I messaged everyone I knew about it. Finally, someone like me was going to play an Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) hero: a mixed race Filipinx person who fell into the “ambiguously brown” category. While my excitement was not universal
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Random Conclusions We Want to See in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker0
- Television and Film, Opinion
- December 17, 2019
The highly anticipated conclusion to the new Star Wars trilogy is upon us! We at WWAC are all excited (and apprehensive) for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—with reason. There’s plenty of expectation for this final instalment—after all, it is meant to wrap up the entire Skywalker saga, spanning three trilogies.
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Batwoman’s Julia Pennyworth Casting is All Wrong0
- Television and Film, Opinion
- December 10, 2019
In episode seven of Batwoman, ‘Tell Me The Truth,’ viewers were introduced to Julia Pennyworth (Christina Wolfe), Kate Kane’s (Ruby Rose) mentor and Alfred Pennyworth’s daughter.
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Four-Colour Faves: Jackie Brown presents Mister Sinister0
- Comics, Interviews, Opinion
- December 6, 2019
Whether he’s messing around in the Summers gene pool, or messing around in, well, the entire mutant population’s gene pool, Mister Sinister — nee Nathaniel Essex — is one of the most enigmatic villains the X-Men have ever faced. He’s always got something up his sleeve, and that’s just a small part of his charm.
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The Performative Horniness of Dawn of X0
Adjoining bedrooms. That was all it took for the X-Men’s most infamous love triangle to suddenly become a canon poly triad in the minds of fans everywhere. Elsewhere in the same issue, we bore witness to Corsair’s partner hitting on Rachel Summers, his granddaughter, another character generally accepted as queer despite only the most subtextual
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Copter Crash: Isabel Fall and the Transgender SF Debate
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- January 20, 2020
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Batwoman's Julia Pennyworth Casting is All Wrong
- Television and Film
- December 10, 2019
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Four-Colour Faves: Jackie Brown presents Mister Sinister
- Comics, Interviews, Opinion
- December 6, 2019