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Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Racial Reckoning through Comics”
Decolonizing and fighting racism one panel at a time

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Only a week ago we had @QianaWhitted and @DarieckScott giving terrific presentations on "The World as Wakanda” and on “Desegregating Comics”. You couldn’t attend? Check out the recordings! https://t.co/fhfPRLPFSq

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@pintamonas Dios mio. ¿Tú sabes mi obsesión cn el volleyball? Y recuerdo verla de pequeña xo no sé por qué a trozos. La q veía era Eriko, la cantante. Xo cn lo loca q soy del volley, este lamzamiento es como un sueñooooo!!

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We learned some secrets at the Q&A between @AnaMerinoPoeta, Corey Creekmur, @xaimeh and @BetomessGilbert 😎 Couldn’t attend? It’s online! https://t.co/OmNGE6UhyW

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Yesterday was amazing . Today more ….

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🎯TODAY🎯In-person or ONLINE!
11.00 - 12.00 pm: @QianaWhitted on “Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics.”
02.00 - 03.30 pm: @xaimeh and @BetomessGilbert
03.30 - 04.30 pm: Roundtable with @QianaWhitted @astronatalia and @DarieckScott

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We’re starting! Join us in person @ICPL or online! https://t.co/RzqtBHyHwR
NOW: Darieck Scott on "The World as Wakanda: Meditations on Fantasy, Utopia, and Super-powers."

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You'd love to hear @QianaWhitted @DarieckScott @xaimeh @BetomessGilbert @astronatalia but can't come in person? Follow us 💥ONLINE!💥 Link in our schedule: https://t.co/RzqtBHyHwR @ObermannCenter

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💥TOMORROW💥 We celebrate 40 years of Love and Rockets with @xaimeh and @BetomessGilbert themselves by playing the terrific @KCETArtbound's LOVE AND ROCKETS: THE GREAT AMERICAN COMIC BOOK Documentary @icfilmscene Grab your popcorn the Hernandez themselves!

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Our closing event is ✨Luxurious✨engaging discussions, Q&As, book signings and @KCETArtbound’ s Love and Rockets documentary @icfilmscene ! Come join us! @ObermannCenter @uiowa @ICPL https://t.co/RzqtBHyHwR

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Friends reunite again this weekend for our closing event!😍❤️ @xaimeh @BetomessGilbert @AnaMerinoPoeta have u checked our schedule yet? We’re even taking you to the movies! @icfilmscene @ObermannCenter @UIowaResearch

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We are excited to have @DarieckScott with us, whose new book “Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics” constitutes another groundbreaking approach to intersecting discourses on race, queerness, fantasy and comics.

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"[C]omics ... 'queer' the archive of US culture." (199), as @DarieckScott and @NewMutantRamz state (and prove) in "Queer About Comics".

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And not only do they present liberating avenues for a dynamic exploration of non-normative forms of sexual identity but in both their “content and  fan culture [runs] an ongoing critique of normative social relations…and solicitation of nonnormative counterpublics”

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In just 10 days, we'll have @xaimeh @BetomessGilbert @QianaWhitted @DarieckScott and @astronatalia with us! Check out our schedule! It's a dream!! https://t.co/RzqtBHyHwR

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We are thrilled to have Professor @QianaWhitted with us for our closing event! Looking forward to her presentation on “Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics”!!

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Much research has been devoted to EC Comics, especially as an icon of Frederick Wertham's crusade against comics, but @QianaWhitted offered a whole new approach in "EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest"

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Whitted proves that "race, gender, and social justice in the American comic book industry are [not] rare or unwelcome" and her thorough research has been rewarded with an Eisner Award.

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🔥 Persepolis @icfilmscene 🔥as part of our month devoted to comics adapted to the screen. @EsthercillaCM will be introducing it on Wednesday and it will be screened on Sunday as well. Come watch witty and sarcastic Satrapi!