Hope you're ready to reckon, students! For this lecture, your hosts dive back into the deep mine that is Alison Blaire, the Dazzler. It's Dazzler Studies 301! This time, we're trying ton answer the question: Is Dazzler bad, actually?

Topics for this episode include:Dean's adventures at Flame Con, Dazzler as a symbol for progressive or regressive politics, a close reading of Brian Johnson's essay "Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame", how Alison is a product of Reagan-era politics, what do we do in order to reclaim our queer icons, and pop divas! Then, Dean and Morgan embark on an ambitious journey: Creating Dazzler: Sparkle, Alison's Greatest Hits Album!

You can follow the show on TikTok and Twitter @mutant101pod and on Instagram @mutantstudies101. Links to our show notes, transcripts, citations, and sources can be found at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com. You can follow Morgan on social media @beakerbarnes and Dean on Instagram @deancoburnld.

As always, we'd like to thank Ollie (@OlliePhresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our music and graphic design, respectively

Dia duit, Students! On this episode, Dean gets to take a student role as Morgan flexes their knowledge of Irish post-modernism as we look at the X-Men villain Black Tom Cassidy through the lens of James Joyce's Dubliners!

Topics for today's episode include: What distinguishes Joyce's writing from his contemporaries? How does one care for a homeland while also being drawn out of it? Can we relate Black Tom's power set back to his relationship to Ireland, and how much did Krakoa influence him? And Morgan stops being aloof and mysterious!

Content Warning: this episode contains discussions of the Irish Civil conflict known as the troubles

You can find links and information for our show, including show notes, citations, and transcripts, at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com. You can find Morgan on socials @beakerbarnes and can follow Dean's Substack at deansoscarrambles.substack.com

As always, we'd like to thank Hayden (@mcuwaititi) and Ollie (@OlliePhresh) for our graphic design and music, respectively.

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Get ready to break the fourth wall, students! For this episode, your professors are joined by Morgan's friend and writer Jason (@simplewrites_2.0) to discuss their very complicated feelings on the Deadpool movies!

Topics in this episode include: Ryan Reynolds as an auteur, the crazy journey to get these movies to the big screen Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, how do we handle art that makes us feel bad, and a tangent about Dazzler!

You can find links to the show notes and transcripts for this and every episode at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com. You can find Morgan @beakerbarnes

We'd like to thank Ollie (@olliphresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our music and graphic design, respectively

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Once again wishing you a Happy Pride, Students! For this lecture, your hosts examine queer theory as it relates to the body and the mutant metaphor with an extremely exciting special guest: PhD in Literature and current writer for Marvel Comics Anthony Oliveira!

Topics include: How do you navigate writing queerness in rooms where you aren't allowed full creative control? When does the mutant metaphor work with queerness and when does it work against it? What do two mutants, Iceman and Rogue, have that relate to queerness both literal and metaphorical? Should Rogue and Siryn kiss on the mouth? (yes) And a lot of incredible conversations surrounding Anthony's current run of Avengers Academy!

Content Warnings: This episode includes difficult conversations around queerness and violence done to the LGBTQ community, including forced repression, being ostracized from family units, and the AIDS crisis. There is also a conversation around the current detention of immigrants by government agencies.

You can find links for the show, including social handles, show notes, citations, and transcripts, at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com. You can find Morgan on socials @beakerbarnes. You can find Anthony's work on Marvel Unlimited, at your local comic and bookstores, and on socials @meakoopa.

As always, we'd like to thank Ollie (@olliephresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our theme music and graphic design, respectively.

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Get ready to go to the Great North, Students! For today's episode of MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS, your professors are joined by their friend Eileen to discuss X-Men: Origins-Wolverine, and The Wolverine!

Topics for this episode include: These movies are bad, Hugh Jackman getting nominated for an Oscar and flopping, Orientalism AGAIN, fun facts about real wolverines, and a fun game!

You can find links for all of our show notes and transcripts at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com!

As always we'd like to thank Ollie (@Olliephresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our theme music and graphic design, respectively.

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Round One, Students! On this, the first proper episode of March Mutant Movie Madness, your professors are joined by friend Des (@movieswithdes) to discuss the first three X-Men movies!

Topics for this episode include: How these movies came to be, our love affair with Scott Summers, how the Mutant Metaphor evolves over the course of these movies, a really fun game, and Morgan's hatred of James Cameron!

You can find the show notes for the podcast as well as transcripts and other links at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com! You can follow Morgan on socials @beakerbarnes!

As always we'd like to thank Ollie (@olliphresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our theme music and graphic design, respectively.

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Welcome back, students! We're back with season 2 of Mutant Studies 101, with the beginning of our miniseries MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS! That's right, we're talking about the movies. But before we talk about that, we wanted to have a bit of coverage around some of the difficult topics we will have to discuss regarding a few of the creatives and the extensive allegations against them.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion around authors and directors that have performed or stated harmful actions or views. A few of these discussion will surround sexual assault, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and antisemitism.

You can find all of the links for the show notes and transcripts at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com! as always we'd like to thank Ollie (@Olliephresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our music and graphic design, respectively.

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Welcome back to class students! For this lecture, your professors are joined by special guest Priya Saxena (comics editor and critic) to discuss Leah Williams and Carols Gomez's X-Terminators (2022)!

Topics for this lecture include: A discussion of Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", how comics fandom reacts to provocative works, how much fun this book is, and grappling with perception as a viewer.

Content warning: This episode generally speaking discusses a lot of potentially misogynistic views on media discussion and women as sexual objects.

You can follow the show @mutantstudies101 on Instagram and @mutant101pod on TikTok and Twitter. Links to all of our show notes and citations can be found at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As Always, we'd like to thank Ollie (@Olliephresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our music and graphic design, respectively.