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Hickman’s X-Men: House of X /Powers of X & the Meaning of Krakoa

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House of X featured

Mutants talking economic policy at Davos! Cyclops/Wolverine/Jean: a throuple! Is Krakoa Israel or is it a gay bar? Jonathan Hickman leads a relaunch of X-men comics that X-Men fans call #HoXPox. What are the politics of the series? This looks like a job for: 

Chingy Le Gay is a writer, comedian, advice columnist, and critically acclaimed ex-girlfriend. Her work focuses on queer dating, pop culture, and her weird sex life and can be found at Out Magazine, Jezebel, Them, and Autostraddle. https://twitter.com/TheGayChingy

Steven Attewell writes about the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture in The People’s History of the Marvel Universe for Graphic Policy, and at https://racefortheironthrone.tumblr.com/ (where he’s been covering HoX/PoX issue-by-issue). In his day job, he teaches public policy at CUNY’s School for Labor and Urban Studies. https://twitter.com/StevenAttewell

Also:

  • Comparing AOC and Krakoa
  • “No it’s not a cult!”
  • Who gets to tell big stories in comics
  • Mutant Social Reproduction in the Marxist sense & the sexy sense
  • Free All Political Prisoners!
  • “My medication is an endless supply of Charles Xaviers”
  • “Emma/Jean is Top for Top” 

As always, hosted by : https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn

By Elana Levin

(Host Graphic Policy Radio/ GP Contributor) – Elana hosts Graphic Policy Radio, our podcast. Elana started reading comics in Jr. High by stealing her younger brother’s copies of X-Men. She immediately identified mutants as a metaphor for oppressed groups and used this to justify her interest in comics to her incredulous friends and relatives.

And has been doing so ever since.

A trained (but not particularly practicing) artist, Elana covers comics art and analyzes comics and the industry from a queer feminist and leftist perspective.

By day Elana leads trainings on digital strategy for nonprofit organizations and campaigns. She has lead fan activism trainings at political conferences and geek conferences alike. She has spoken about Jack Kirby for the SyFy network, The Jack Kirby Museum and hosted panels at NY Comic Con, FlameCon and AwesomeCon. Her critical work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Wired Magazine, The Guardian and the BBC.
She tweets, too much, at https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn