Writer of the Patricia Highsmash column. Former editor of Along the Chaparral, Future Earth Magazine & Platte Valley Review. Author of Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies & There is Nothing Left to Say (On The Invisibles). Guest Presenter at Naropa University, University of California Riverside, and Harbin Institute. Former faculty, Shandong University. Director of short films, including low fruit.
When someone is homophobic about a fiction, when someone is racist about a character, when someone is antisemitic about a comic, are they, or are they always that bigot? #Batman #Superman #PeppermintPatty #WinnieThePooh #TransSpiderMan
DetailsHow DC Comics’ Blood Pack explored reality tv through the superhero in 1995 via stuffies, gay magazines, coffee table books, bedroom peep cams & manufactured youth culture for the olds.
DetailsInland Empire is @LauraDern & @DAVID_LYNCH showing us the horror of believing you deserve violence done to you. The brutal power of illicit story. Of hotel room tv. Enforced guilt creating cycles, variations, cruelties, ghosts & a world in which we die.
DetailsThings we need no more, like celebrating abusers, the nebulously gay, edgelord satire, purity culture & how #BethBroderick #KateMcKinnon #JamesCoburn #ReservationDogs & #OurFlagMeansDeath get around them.
DetailsPeter B. Gillis @JMDeMatteis @annienocenti @KevinNowlan & Janice Chiang made THE NEW DEFENDERS one of the most stylish, intelligent, socially-conscious & happening comics of the 1980s. I was a disabled, mixed, intersex kid. It changed & saved my life.
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: For two years, @1PeterMilligan & @SalvadorLarroca made X-Men a psychosexual horror comic about colonialism, bigotry, self-doubt & space fungi. #XMen #MarvelComics
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @joanjett launched a revolution with the Blackhearts. Join @barbarakesel @wiktoriabeczek @CatStaggs et al they explore two of the Blackhearts earliest albums in a double-sided graphic novel in stories from @Z2comics!
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: In Love & Murder, @jodipicoult @TerryDodsonArt et al put #WonderWoman between her birthplace & her chosen homeland, between her mother & the Amazons and her boss & the United States! #DCComics
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: @dan_aykroyd’s #TheBluesBrothers is always for the kids, just kids from 7 to 97. From #SNL to the movies, albums, stage revues & the Original Blues Brothers Band!
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: Bob Dylan, with The Philosophy of Modern Song, merges prose & photo-essay in a rollickin’ exploration of the philosophy and silliness in, around, about and abutting the last 100 years of song. @bobdylan
DetailsTired of every story being an alternate reality, a multiverse? They all always were. Get with it! #SpiderVerse #SuperSmashBros #VladimirNabokov #SakuraWars #AKnightsTale #WilliamShakespeare
DetailsPATRICIA HIGHSMASH: #Dracula ought to be weird & that’s how Darian Caine plays the role opposite Erin Brown in Tony Marsiglia’s bizarre, queer, violent, tender movie, Lust for Dracula. #LustForDracula
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