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Comic Time: I’m Just Trying To Get Through My Day

July 29, 2019 by Norma Krautmeyer 2 Comments

Filed Under: Comic Time, Endings Tagged With: comic time, disability

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Comic Time: Who Knows What Could Have Been?

August 5, 2015 by Norma Krautmeyer Leave a Comment

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Comic Time: Things My Feet Are Good At

April 1, 2015 by Norma Krautmeyer Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Comic Time, Endings Tagged With: comic

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X-Men: Days Of Failing The Bechdel Test

March 4, 2015 by Norma Krautmeyer Leave a Comment

There’s a particular difficulty in evaluating the X-Men movies for pass/fail of the Bechdel Test. Both Xavier’s ability to speak through other people and Mystique’s metamorph ability rather muddy the waters for assessing whether two or more women in any given X-Men movie are talking to each other about something besides a man. But those…

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Undermining Uhura

February 17, 2015 by Norma Krautmeyer 79 Comments

Commander Uhura is a feminist icon. Her role on the bridge of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) marked a turning point: Uhura illustrated that women could go into space. Uhura was not there as a princess to be rescued, not someone’s wife or girlfriend, not there as eye candy or to pick up after the boys, she…

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Comic Time: Age Has Its Privileges

February 13, 2015 by Norma Krautmeyer Leave a Comment

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Comic Time: Just Stop Asking People If They Will Have Children

February 5, 2015 by Norma Krautmeyer Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Comic Time, Endings Tagged With: children, comic, stop asking

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