Superheroines
Superheroines through the decades have been far more multicultural than readers might expect. There were Senorita Rio and the Victory Girls in the 40s; Storm, Mantis, Talia al Ghul, Misty Knight, Psylocke, Ms. Marvel and a host of TV shows in the 70s; Jubilee, Katana, Karma, Kitty Pryde, Amanda Waller, and a Spider-Woman TV show in the 80s; Oracle and Martha Washington in the nineties. Today, there’s an explosion onscreen from Wonder Woman and Black Panther’s family to TV shows like Runaways, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, DC’s Super Hero Girls, and Agents of SHIELD. Comics like Faith, A-Force, America Chavez, Spider-Woman, Moon Girl, Silk, Ms. Marvel, Birds of Prey, and Squirrel Girl emphasize how these stories are always pushing the boundaries. Youtube presentation available. https://studio.youtube.com/video/9IXj8ITnUnM/edit
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- 1. SUPERHEROINES Stunning, Multicultural, and Butt-kicking… …from then to now
- 4. 50S
- 5. 60S AND 70S TV
- 8. 70S
- 9. 80S
- 10. 90S
- 11. 2002-2003 BIRDS OF PREY IS SHORT LIVED BUT SWEET AND INSPIRING. NO BATMAN IN SIGHT.
- 12. THE X-MEN HAVE NEW WOMEN… Omega Sentinel (Karima Shapandar) (2000) Dust (2003): The World’s most covered superheroine Armor (2004): shielded by the power of her ancestors Blindfold (2004): a blind Chinese seer Cassandra Nova, Xavier’s twin (2001) X-23 (2004)
- 13. 2000’S
- 14. TODAY IN COMICS
- 15. SQUIRREL GIRL THE NONVIOLENT PROBLEM SOLVER…HAS DEFEATED DR. DOOM, THANOS, DEADPOOL, MODOK, GALACTUS, WOLVERINE…EVERYONE
- 16. SILK (KOREAN): LIKE SPIDER-MAN BUT SHE CAN MAKE HER OWN WEB-CLOTHES. SHE’S QUESTING TO FIND HER VANISHED FAMILY.
- 17. MOON GIRL (LUNELLA LAFAYETTE) IS NINE YEARS OLD AND A GENIUS INVENTOR—AND SHE DOESN’T WANT SUPERPOWERS. SHE FINALLY GETS A SURPRISING ONE AS WELL AS A DINOSAUR PAL.
- 18. NICO MINOROU, THE GOTH SORCERESS OF RUNAWAYS AND A-FORCE….BUT SHE CAN ONLY CAST EACH SPELL ONCE.
- 19. MS. MARVEL: PAKISTANI AMERICAN FROM NEW JERSEY. EVERYONE’S CALLING HER THE PERFECT VOICE OF TODAY’S TEEN EXPERIENCE.
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- Margo, who’s half Chinese, is the daughter of famed stage magician, the Great Presto. They both use mass hypnosis to make her “magic.”
- And in 1950, Jackie Ormes revived her Harlem singer heroine with “Torchy Brown’s Heartbeats” and took her on many wild adventures through boat rides and jungles and hurricanes as she fell in and out of love. Unlike the melodramatic comics that appeared in white-owned newspapers, “Torchy” directly tackled issues around race and segregation, as well as environmentalism.
- She appeared later in The Dark Knight Rises and Arrow and Batman: The Animated Series
- Psylocke is Japanese-British. Mantis is Vietnamese, Trina Robbins’ cover for “It Ain’t Me, Babe” the first women’s liberation comic anthology, first published by Last Gasp in 1970. (Via “Pretty in Ink”).
- Karma is a Vietnamese refugee and Jubilee is Chinese, from Beverley Hills. Most people remember Jem as a pop star who occasionally got into adventures but she saved people from the Misfits
- M (Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix) is Muslim (1994) and gets to discuss prejudice