Tag: Superhero

Cleverman: an Indigenous TV superhero fighting racism and white supremacy

I am not a fan of superhero movies. From what I’ve seen, most of the mainstream superhero genre is orientalist, racist, misogynist, and profoundly white (Dr Strange is an obvious example here, on a number of levels). It seems that a modern superhero is not required to fight the ...

These Words Have Absolutely Wild Superhero Origin Stories

Most words have a pretty interesting backstory when you look into them, but a lot of them grew up in a fairly recognizable way — going to word school, getting a word job, maybe settling down with another word and having little word children. But some words did things the hard way. Some words r...