Merry Christmas everyone. And what would Christmas be without a gift of a movie review from me? Well, honestly, it would pretty much just be Christmas. I don’t even know that i’ve ever written a movie review for Christmas before. But whatever. Steph and I saw Passengers on Christmas Eve, so I’m doing it. Before I…
Category: Gender & Sex
Gender & Sex, TV
on Cursing, Cocks, Cha-Chas, Cunts and Consistency
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Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex
Research Outsourcing: Rape Comics
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Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex
Student Guest Blog: Danielle Vecchione on Gender Bent Slash Fiction
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In my continuing plan to ignore the election for this week, I now present to you the final in my series of student guest blogs from my class on Sex, Violence and Comics. This one is from Danielle Vecchione. Dani is a sophomore Education major. Since the assignment was to write about either gender bending or…
Academics, Gender & Sex, Movies, Pop culture, TV
Student Guest Blog: Zach Landau on Star Trek slash fiction
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Who wants to talk about something non election related? How about some good old fashioned gay talk? I actually specifically chose to not post about the election at all yesterday. At least not on my own blog. Some people wrote and asked me my opinions and I commented some other places, but I just kinda wasn’t…
Academics, Gender & Sex, Pop culture
Student Guest Blog: Alexander Greene on gender-bending Overwatch.
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I hope everyone is enjoying voting and bringing about the downfall of American democracy today. And if you’re not doing so, then you should totally go out and do so because voting is important. In the meantime, why not take a break from it and check into my continued series of “what Mav’s students are…
Academics, Gender & Sex, Pop culture
Student Guest Blog: Dana Mitro on gender-bending Overwatch.
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Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex, Photography
Mav’s Costumes and Cosplay class Post-mortem
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Way back when I started teaching my Sex, Violence and Comics class, the students actually requested a class focusing on cosplay. Then a couple days ago I asked for people’s thoughts on the homework that I’d be giving for that class. We did it on Halloween. Some people asked if I could share some of…
Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex, Movies
Planning my “Comics and the Male Gaze” lecture
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Academics, Gender & Sex, Pop culture, Website Reviews
on Youtube Confusion … in a good way!
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This is weird…. So you know how Youtube tries to make recommendations based on what you watch? So Steph sometimes watches youtube videos on our AppleTV. I love AppleTV, but the most annoying thing about the Youtube app on it is that it doesn’t have multiple users like the Netflix app does. You just log…
Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex, Movies
Too Much Not Enough Batgirl (a Batman: The Killing Joke movie review)
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(This is a review of the Batman: The Killing Joke animated movie adaptation that was just released. I’m going to mostly avoid spoilers if I can, but they will be there. But the book is from 1988. Honestly, there isn’t much to spoil… but if you’re worried about that… well, i guess that’s your damn fault for waiting…
Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex
Superpowers for girls?
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Now here’s a concept I haven’t given much thought to. People who follow my Goodreads updates might have noticed that I’ve been spending this summer reading a lot of academic theory books on comics and superheroes. I’m currently reading The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines by Mike Madrid. Good book very…
Academics, Comics, Gender & Sex, Race & Class
Superheroes of COLORS (addendum)
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So, as sort of an addition to my last blog post (about racial representation in superhero comics)… I’ve been reading a book called Dangerous Curves, by Jeffrey Brown. Mostly it is about gender and fetishization of female characters in action stories (movies mostly, but also comics, TV and novels). In other words, the kind of…
Gender & Sex, Meme, Pop culture, Race & Class, Rants, Religion
Think about your relationship memes…
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So my cousin, Denna reshared this meme on Facebook last night and it’s been weighing on my mind ever since. It features pictures of Halle Berry, Janet Jaclson, J-Lo and Kim Kardashian in lingerie with captions showing that each has been married three times and then a picture of David and Tamela Mann posing in their…