swordwitch's spoilers blog

Drack: What’s with the smudge over your eyes? Tryin’ to be some kinda superhero?

Peebee: Why all the bones? Tryin’ to be some kinda supervillain?

Drack: Yes.

This week, I made a quick comic about the overlap of non-binary gender labels and personal my experience trying them on.

Huge thanks go out to @bigendering and eir very informative post (which I slightly borrowed from for the second page, lol), here!

What this genre looks like is pundits who are almost universally men and almost exclusively white, firing off sleazy ideas about “hillbillies” while doing a very poor job differentiating between Trump voters and the average sort of disadvantaged person who lives in Appalachia or the Rust Belt. 

I use the word “average” intentionally because these pieces ignore the fact that most people in these regions — just like the majority of people across the nation — did not vote for Donald Trump. This genre ignores the fact that marches, town halls and protests are happening here just as frequently as in New York. 

So “The Force Awakens” has a lot of stuff going on with names. Finn doesn’t have one at all until he meets Poe, Rey has just one and doesn’t know anything about her family. Kylo Ren replaced his while trying to convince himself he can be as badass as Vader. (Good luck with that.) Poe Dameron is the only person in the younger generation with two names - even Hux and Phasma have just the one we know - and he’s also the only one who knows who he is, what he’s doing, and in general has his shit together.