Figuring it out: 'confusing' non-binary gender in Runaways and The Order of the Stick

Editorial Material Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Feminist Comics in the Nordic Region-Queer, Humour and the Body Introduction

Mike Classon Frangos et al.

EUROPEAN COMIC ART (2022)

Article Humanities, Multidisciplinary

'Orgies in the Garden of Heaven' - the pornographic playground of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls

Melissa Shani Brown et al.

Summary: This article situates Lost Girls as a 'pornographic playground' where through 'play', the text is able to navigate the ethics of its pornographic mode in a serious yet not-serious manner. Despite creating a space of continuous play, it also reveals a sexual playground predicated upon class privilege.

CULTURE THEORY AND CRITIQUE (2021)

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Article Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

'Strangely Like a Person': Cole and the Queering of Asexuality in Dragon Age: Inquisition

Melissa Shani Brown et al.

Summary: This article analyzes the representation of asexuality in the character Cole in the game Dragon Age: Inquisition, focusing on how his lack of sexual interest is treated by other characters and its significance in the narrative. Cole's characterization as being ambiguously different from other characters and infantilized as a 'boy' is particularly highlighted through humor.

SEXUALITY & CULTURE-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL (2021)

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Article Humanities, Multidisciplinary