Queer Art and Identity, Queerness

Your John 3:16 Car Sticker Makes Me Nervous

The first June in our first house, I put out a Pride flag on the already installed flagpole mount. This was in a blue dot in a red state, in 2016 ish, at the incipient rise of modern Rainbow Capitalism. I had been pretty solid on the pan-ace thing for awhile but non-binary was still… Continue reading Your John 3:16 Car Sticker Makes Me Nervous

comics, Queer Art and Identity, Queerness, Social Deconstruction, World Building

The Bi-Vestigation of Eddie Brock

Pride month means all my queer comic and comic adjacent subReddits are talking canon sexuality among Marvel characters, particularly the Marvel Rivals cast. And I do have to express a level of chagrin that people are boxing it into “gay, straight, bi” because like…asexual? Split theory of attraction? Whatever.One of the big points of discussion,… Continue reading The Bi-Vestigation of Eddie Brock

Books and Literature, comics, Queer Art and Identity

To Support Queer Artists, You Actually Have to Know Who They Are

A discussion came up in on of my comic subreddits about the Marvel Pride issue coming out this month. There were a lot of good-natured jokes about Daken’s yassification on the cover and the nature of rainbow capitalism and how they pull these characters out once a year, then place them back on the shelves.… Continue reading To Support Queer Artists, You Actually Have to Know Who They Are