Steven Universe continues to prove itself an effective series that relays important messages and provides characters that allow its fans to speak to wider cultural issues. As a children’s fantasy story, it has the space to put social commentary in plain sight while passing it off as world-building. This is one of the great things… Continue reading Wholeness Through Defectiveness: Reversing Homeworld’s -isms in Steven Universe
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The Garnet #BlackLivesMatter Mural and the Power of Fictional Characters
During the Baltimore uprising, I made this post with some brief reactions I had at the time as well as a collection of articles for more in-depth reading. I reflected on how the kind of criticism I do on this blog is easy, in a sense, because narrowing down the broad topic of intersectionality to… Continue reading The Garnet #BlackLivesMatter Mural and the Power of Fictional Characters