Sunday, December 17, 2017
For Monday: Wilson, Ms. Marvel
For your final in-class reading, finish Ms. Marvel for Monday and turn in your last Comics Template Response.
Here's a New Yorker Interview with G. Willow Wilson, the writer of Ms. Marvel, who surprisingly enough is not Middle Eastern but is a Muslim (she grew up in America, as she interview explains): https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/g-willow-wilsons-american-heroes
Though here's another article which shows how unforgiving the spotlight can be on a racial pioneer in comics; in this case, she isn't doing enough and is reinforcing dangerous stereotypes: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/05/ms-marvel-g-willow-wilson-muslim-race-comics
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