Hope you have all your memories Students! Your professors are BACK and this time they're talking about one of the great loves of their lives: Logan Wolverine and his time as the elusive Patch!

Highlights of this lecture include: Examining the issues of Orientalism surrounding Wolverine, how he fits into archetypal pop culture roles in the 20th century, exploring what it means to have a Japanese writer take these Orientalist elements, and running off into the woods!

Content warning: some of the discussions in this episode briefly mention topics of domestic abuse, the brutal killings of women, and a tangent about the Canadian government's treatment of First Nations people. Additionally, as stated in the episode, Orientalism is a complicated topic with no clear answers on how to handle it but often leads to the exploitation of the cultures and people it is discussing.

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter and TikTok @Mutant101POD and Morgan @beakerbarnes!

As always we would like to thank Ollie (@olliephresh) and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our music and graphic design work, respectively

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Welcome Back Students! after a brief hiatus, your favorite professors are back and ready to take office hours again. Tune into the first episode of our series Recitations, where we bring on a friend and explain a crazy X-Men plot to them! This week: The Mojoverse featuring our good friend Claire (@clairekryze)!

Highlights of this lecture include: What is the Mojoverse? How does Longshot's story and the Mojoverse as a whole function as a trans allegory? Is it possible to not even KNOW who Wolverine is? And a special performance of spoken word from Prof. Morgan!

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter and TikTok @Mutant101POD. You can find Morgan @beakerbarnes on Twitter and TikTok and Dean strapped to the prow of a ship, slowly experiencing all of time and space at once.

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

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Happy Pride, Students! In today's lecture, in honor of her new solo series coming this September, your professors confess their love, admiration, and slightly too convoluted feelings about one of the greatest cultural exports of mutant kind: Alison Blaire, the Disco Dazzler!

Topics in this episode include: Who is Dazzler and why should you care? What is Morgan doing that will get this show cancelled? Where does Dazzler's career stand in regards to being a flop OR having an EGOT? A brief queen-out session about Storm, and, most importantly: Which member of The New Directions is a mutant???

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter and TikTok @Mutant101POD and your hosts Morgan (@beakerbarnes on Twitter and TikTok) and Dean (@Dean_of_X on Twitter).

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

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Welcome Back Students! In today's lecture, the first in a miniseries we will do that we are affectionately calling "Everything Is X-Men", Morgan lets Dean ramble on about one of his great loves: professional wrestling and how it is connected to the X-Men!

Topics for this episode include: What is professional wrestling? How does professional wrestling use the same storytelling techniques as comics books? What do I mean when I say heel turn? Is Daniel Bryan circa 2013 Bendis-era Cyclops, and your hosts taking a massive amount of psychic damage!

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter @Mutant101POD and your hosts @beakerbarnes and @dean_of_x.

As Always We'd like to thank Ollie (@olliephresh) for their theme music and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for her graphic design work.

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Welcome Back Students! In today's lecture, we take a deep dive into one of the most complicated characters in the story of the X-Men, Madelyne Pryor and her journey leading up to and through the classic story Inferno.

Topics in this episode include: Who is Madelyne Pryor and why should you care? How she both plays into and subverts tropes that have historically been used against women, how different writers interpret characters, what happens when girls want to stop being nice and summon demons, and putting Anne Hathaway in a red wig!

Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of removal of bodily autonomy, mild discussions of body horror, and the death of children. There are also spoilers for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo near the end of the episode.

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter @Mutant101POD and your hosts @beakerbarnes and @Dean_of_X.

As always we'd like to thank Ollie (@olliephresh) for their theme music and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for her graphic design work.

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Welcome Back Students! For today's lecture, your esteemed professors take a deep dive into a seminal text of The X-Men and a foundational reading of this podcast: Jonathan Hickman's 2019 dual-comic series House of X/Powers of X.

Topics in this episode include: How this comic plays with both the form and content of a superhero story, Moira McTaggert's lives and how this was the most radical change Hickman made, mutantkind as community, transhumanism, why we love this book so much to the point it makes us cry, and and more!

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of genocide.

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter @Mutant101POD and your hosts at @beakerbarnes and @Dean_of_X.

As always we would like to thank Ollie (@olliephresh) for their music and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for her art.

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Class is in session! Welcome students to Mutant Studies 101, a podcast where Dean (@Dean_of_X) and Morgan (@beakerbarnes) answer the question, "does the world really need another X-Men podcast???" Join two of your fellow mutants as they break down everything they love (and some things they hate) about the X-Men.

ON THIS EPISODE: Our origin stories with the X-Men! How EVERYTHING is the X-Men! What's the status of Dazzler as a disco star?!?! All these and more in the introductory episode of Mutant Studies 101!!!

Special Thanks to Ollie (@olliephresh) for providing our theme music and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our graphic design work. You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter @Mutant101Pod.

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