Last year, I wrote an editorial on Airboy and accusations of transphobia that were levied at that comic’s creators. Though I mixed in criticisms I had of Airboy from issue one, the main point I tried to get across was that the best possible strategy Airboy’s creative team could take was to listen and try to understand why fans were […]
The Social Media Trials of Hercules: Queer Erasure and Bullying Culture at Marvel
Note: This article was written prior to Dan Slott’s apology, which can be found here. So much for anti-bullying variant cover month. To recap: Same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States on June 26th of this year, and while the ruling has extended privileges to same-sex couples that heterosexual couples have enjoyed for centuries, […]