This week we discuss identity in reading mutant-related comics, from the mutant metaphor and how that interacts with readers' marginalized identities, identity in both the reading process and the creative process, sensitivity reading, explicit representation...
With Special Guests Dani Kinney, trans & intersex educator, consultant, sensitivity reader & write at WWAC; Zach Rabiroff, writer at ComicsXF, and Rhayne A.K.A. Carefree Black Nerd, a podcast about representation in comics & related media.
More from Dani: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/aut... - @trans_rage
More from Zach: https://www.comicsxf.com/author/zachr... - @zachrabiroff
More from Rhayne: https://linktr.ee/CarefreeBlackNerd - @carefreeblerd
DISCLAIMER: In this episode, we're gonna discuss potentially triggering topics that include bigotry and violence against various vulnerable populations, mental health, self-harm/suicide, as well as sexual violence and trauma. If you are dealing with any of those issues, here are some resources:
https://www.suicidestop.com/call_a_ho...
https://translifeline.org/
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
https://blackyouth.ca/services/#how-t...
https://www.nelcwit.org/about/anti-ra...
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