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Debora's avatar

I don’t subscribe for extra content. I do it as a way of respecting the words you write. I love your posts about what you’re reading.

As an author, I’m also really feeling the weight of asking you to talk about a book that’s already someone you used to be :). I like the words from who you are now, the tangle and insight and discomfort that happen on the edge of becoming.

You don’t owe me anything. Become. Share as you want to. Your words matter.

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Russell McOrmond's avatar

On another topic, since you brought up Thor: Have you watched Ms. Marvel?

While my wife isn't a superhero fan (she has no idea why I like scifi/fantasy, and my complicated relationship with Doctor Who), she looked over my shoulder and started asking questions. Her parents are Bengali - from West Bengal, the part that remained part of India after Partition, with East Bengal becoming East Pakistan and then Bangladesh. My in-laws, who live just across the street from us, survived partition.

No spoilers if you haven't watched, but there is more non-Western history/culture there than I expected in a Marvel production.

I have my personal opinion about Dharmic and Abrahamic cultures, and the over-prominence of other Abrahamic cultural references within European/Christian media (like in Canada/USA), but this was better than I expected.

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