Carolyn Cocca

Carolyn Cocca is Professor of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, and author of the Eisner Award-winning Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation.
AOC Comic ‘New Party, Who Dis?’ Makes Clear the Politics of the Superhero Genre
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AOC Comic ‘New Party, Who Dis?’ Makes Clear the Politics of the Superhero Genre

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 / 6 May 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comic New Party, Who Dis? - with its ninjas, spaceships, dancing, explosions, FDR, wrestling, and orange hair - names and satirizes the oppressive dog whistles that undermine marginalized peoples in America and in American politics.