Sarah Garcia
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Superheroes Should Come In All Sizes, Not Just in ‘Thin Straight Male’
By having superheroes be depicted with highly unrealistic but conventionally attractive bodies, fatness is presented as antithetical to the very…
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‘The Curse of La Llorona’ Deserves La Chancla
Here’s a hypothetical: if you were given the task of crafting a movie centered around a myth from Latinx culture,…
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‘Captain Marvel’: Feminism Lacking in Intersectionality
We can ask a new question: is “Captain Marvel” really all that intersectional?
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Dear ‘The Umbrella Academy’: It’s Still Incest
Writers, stop romanticizing incest. Stop normalizing all these harmful tropes and influencing your audience to simply accept them as they…
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‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Proves There Are No Barriers to Becoming a Hero
The vast majority of Spider-Man coverage presents Peter Parker as the only Spider-Man, despite the huge quantity of different manifestations…
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‘Assassin’s Creed’ and The Importance of A Female Odyssey
Even if heroes and their journeys are typically imagined as male-centered, stories should not be afraid of breaking the mold…
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Villainizing Bodies and Minds: Ableism in Horror Movies
People with physical disabilities have a long history of appearing in horror films as the antagonists, often against traditionally attractive,…
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Shifting Masculinities: How “God of War” Became “Dad of War”
If nothing else, the new “God of War” represents how one can tell a tale revolving around masculinity without being…
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It Still Counts: Fridging in Modern Comic Book Movies
“Fridging” has not disappeared, but instead it has begun to take on a new form that may be deemed more…
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Damsels or Daughters: Fetishization in Video Games
Perhaps, in the future, the white heterosexual cis male gamer will not be seen as the default for who video…
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