Sense8 Season2: So Many Questions
I’m really not at all interested in reviewing or analyzing Sense8 again, but I would like to get mah nerds
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Author: Claire Light
Logan: The End of Ol’ White Men
The “Whitelash” theory of Trump’s super-embarrassing slide into the presidency (well, we never claimed the U.S. wasn’t anti-intellectual, did we?)
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What Can A Nerd Do (About Trump)?
Okay, we, as nerds of color (TM), especially now that a white supremacist nightmare is about to become our president,
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Luke Cage is the Most Feminist Show on TV
Spoiler warning: spoilers throughout. Best to read this after watching the whole season! Which I recommend! It was during a
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The Martian View of Cultural Appropriation
Let’s say you’re a Martian. Let’s say you’ve been sent to Earth to study human society and culture. Let’s say
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Could Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Become TV’s Diversest Show?
Four of these people are gone-zo. Can you guess which? Okay. Here be much spoilerage. Now that season 3 of Agents
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White Virgin/Whore of Color: #DaredevilProblems
I wasn’t gonna do this, but in a conversation on twitter, @BlackGirlNerds asked me to expand on what I recently
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Racist Like Daredevil with this One Weird Tip!
So. I can’t say what I would have to say about the orientalism in Daredevil Season Two any better than
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Agent Carter Diversity Scorecard
Okay, the second season of Marvel’s Agent Carter is over and it’s time to tally up the score! We’ll be
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Agent Carter Adds Superhero TV’s Newest Trope
Marvel’s Agent Carter had its season premiere Tuesday night with a double episode, and all sorts of things are new. For
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Supergirl is a Total Drag
Welp. We’re down seven episodes on CBS’ new Supergirl series, and I can now definitively say that not only does
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‘Sense8’ and the Failure of Global Imagination
How do you imagine a life you could never live? Though not really a theme, this problem is at the
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Maiden, Mother, Crone: Why Voyager Was Awesome
In honor of N.O.C.’s Star Trek Week, I’m reposting something I wrote about four years ago on my own blog. It’s
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The Wolverine Sucked for Narrative, Not Political, Reasons
Okay, folks. Just to start NOC off on the right foot (i.e. to NOT give you the impression that Nerds
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(Not An) Origin Story
As a grad student in the United States, my mother accidentally fell into a vat of white dude while trying
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