Think of your favorite straight character. How do you know that they’re heterosexual?My favorite thing to do in comic book discussions is say “okay, but what does the text actually say?” Because comic book readers are notorious for pulling one panel or one issue out of context and drawing all their conclusions from that. You… Continue reading PRIDE: The Punisher is Textually a (Closet) Bisexual and Your Straight Bias is Making You Miss the Fun
Like any good little queer, probably autistic, sci-fi reader, I dearly love the Murderbot books even if I’m not fully caught up with them (shh, leave me alone). So when the show was announced, I was obviously excited. When I saw that Alexander Skarsgard was the lead I was like “hm.” Not because I don’t… Continue reading PRIDE: MurderBot Isn’t Non-Binary
Hello. I’m asexual. I’m also non-binary. I tend to settle on “queer” when it comes up in conversation to cut through the chatter.Good, now we’re caught up.Asexuality is one of those things people just really really really struggle to understand. So much so that even some of my fellow aces gatekeep it into this hyper-exclusionary,… Continue reading PRIDE: Asexual People Can Have Sex and That’s Good for Everyone
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
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
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
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