so let's make a mess, lioness.

My Post Crisis Stephanie Brown reading list for y’all! [twit] [tt]

Best place to access (if you have the funds, can read digital, and it’s available in your country) is via the DCUI app. Subscription is less than 10£ a month, and gives you access to 27k different dc issues, including all of these ones.

If you have a public library system near you, you can go in via person, or use an app such as hoopla or Libby to access whatever issues they have.

The number of times I have seen somebody insist that a bat boy better encapsulates a female experience than any female character, only for them to turn around and fully acknowledge they haven't engaged with Batwoman, Birds of Prey, or Huntress, let alone any of the female characters outside the bat family...

If you want explanations on the choices, I have that too.

I relate to Bart Allen more than plenty of lesbian characters. That doesn’t inherently mean his story and experiences then automatically encapsulate the lesbian experience better than—say, Kate Kane or Renee Montoya’s do— in large part because his exclusion within a space has never come as a direct result of his sexuality or gender presentation.

My experiences of being outside the girl’s and boy’s club as a lesbian can be connected to his occasional experiences of exclusion on basis of his perceived intellect, but their root cause and reasoning differs.

A character embodying a specific experience or a community doesn’t automatically make them the most relatable one to everybody within that community. A plethora of lived experiences and innate facets of identity form unique beings, on and off page.