As a girl with sisters who didn’t look white, but didn’t look like a specific ethnicity or race my mum and her family endured horrible racism. Marvel…Not a sixteen year old brown girl with a 9pm curfew.’ I think if my mum had been able to experience the Kamala Khan version of Ms Marvel she might have found the representation empowering and comforting. I saved somebody’s life today….But everybody’s expecting Ms. As Kamala says early on in this volume ‘I have super powers.
Someone who looked utterly different to her as a mixed race Turkish girl. The photo my brother found one day was faded…In it my mum was reading a 1970s issue of the Carol Danvers Ms Marvel. This might seem like an outlandish thing to say, but it’s true.
Marvel or Kamala Khan we have a comic character that is changing visual media and the world.
It lets us know that we aren’t different or weird and it makes us know we aren’t alone.
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