Or, Gwen Should Smooch Her MJ (real!) For later reference if the date of the post doesn’t make it immediately clear enough, I’m writing right after Giant Size Spider-Gwen #1 (2024) released but before Spider-Gwen: Smash #4 has released. Spoilers for the first three issues of Smash and for Giant Size if that’s something you care about The actual introduction to this blog post Okay so. I’m a lesbiab. lesbean. Gay.

Or, I actually read the comics don’t @ me Gwen Spider-Woman slash Ghost-Spider slash Spider-Gwen is definitely trans though guys. Okay memes aside, I have Thoughts about the comics and they do partly involve the whole trans thing. And I guess like, there’s spoilers if you care about those. Getting the Bad out of the way Okay, I’m going to get the one thing that really pisses me off out of the way first so I can then do my more reparative reading.

Or, Feminism is Plastic, So Fantastic Okay first off, Hari Nef is super pretty and I am jealous. With that out of the way, I recently saw the new popular movie (And no, I’m not doing the Barbenheimer, unless my friends invite me and we grab dinner too). I think people maligning the movie for being funded and produced by a capitalist company under capitalism are not wrong, that is an accurate description of the movie and its context but it’s like, super ultra pro max paranoid reading and I think coming at it with a reparative lens is Cooler.

Or, “The Curtains are Just Blue” and its Consequences Yes this is a post about Gwen Spider-Woman being trans. It felt fitting as a first post for this new blog, sue me. Media (Il)literacy Before we can actually get into the why (because, I will, don’t you worry. I’ve seen the movie twice at the time of writing this post), we need to talk about the media (il)literacy-shaped elephant in the room.