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I’m not sure I’ve ever felt angstier than I did on the ride home from seeing “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” I was all in: forehead resting against the car window, staring through tree branches at a moon that hangs over us all. Mourning the stories that don’t get told because of racism, sexism, ableism… all [...]

“Thor: Love and Thunder” hit theaters earlier this summer. As a Thor Odinson fan girl, I was very excited for the follow up to “Thor: Ragnarok,” arguably one of the most fun movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).  Taika Waititi mentioned that this fourth Thor installment was a love story, and as a lover [...]

I am going to be giving out a major spoiler for “Thor: Love and Thunder,” in this story. It’s literally the point of the story. If you do not want to be spoiled for this movie, please stop reading now. Maybe go play with your pets and think about anything else other than this story. [...]

I adore the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and teaching others about dissociative disorders is my passion. As a person/system of parts living and generally thriving with what the diagnostic manuals would call a dissociative disorder, I often use metaphors from fictional realms like Marvel to frame my own inner world and teach others about systems. In [...]

Grief and loss has always been a staple of the superhero genre, part of the backstory mentioned in passing that makes a superhero who they are at their core and what prompted them to fight the good fight. Often however in the past, this loss and grief was glossed over without anguishing detail. We all know [...]

Spoiler Alert: The following article contains spoilers for “WandaVision,” streaming now on Disney Plus. Since January 5, 2021, I’ve been tuning into Disney Plus every single Friday morning to watch the latest anticipated installment of WandaVision, a show depicting Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) hero Wanda Maximoff’s journey to becoming Scarlet Witch — but overall, as [...]

What to know: On Thursday, the designers behind the upcoming “Marvel’s Avengers” revealed the new video game will include a character who uses a wheelchair. The third-person action-adventure game will include the non-playable character Cerise, one of the super-powered Inhumans in the Marvel universe. To realistically portray Cerise, game designers hired Cherry Thompson, a wheelchair user [...]

Disney+ has teamed up with Marvel to turn real-life kids into superheroes. The latest episode of “Marvel’s Hero Project,” features Izzy, a 13-year-old taekwondo champion. Izzy was born with arthrogryposis, a rare congenital condition that causes the joints to become locked in a fixed position, especially in the arm and leg joints. Izzy’s legs and [...]

When I saw the trailer for “Morbius,” Sony’s upcoming film about a doctor turned pseudo-vampire, I wasn’t expecting another blow to people with disabilities and illnesses. If I had been familiar with the Marvel comics character, Michael Morbius, I would have known better. The trailer suggests the movie is sticking pretty close to the original [...]