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miriam kent
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Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Leeds. I primarily research popular feminism in superhero films, TV & comic books. Leeds UCU Rep 🇩🇪🇬🇧 she/her

Women in Marvel Films https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-in-marvel-films.html
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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jan 9
Forgot to post in the excitement of last year finally ending, but happy to announce my article on Black Widow, gender and genre is our now, open access: doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Beyond the Red Room: Cold War II, Genre and Feminism in Marvel Studios’ Black Widow
Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Thank you to @karriefransman.bsky.social @rikworth.bsky.social and @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social for the extremely insightful chat and thanks to everyone who came out in the characteristically inhospitable weather!
rikworth.bsky.social Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 2d
Has a great time chatting with Paul Davies and @karriefransman.bsky.social about comics and academia!

Special thanks to @miriamkent.bsky.social for putting it together
Rik Worth in front of a poster for the Comics: Theory and Practice round table Gallery pages of Hocus Pocus by Worth, Collver and Watts
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Join us on Wednesday 12 November for a roundtable discussion about comics and research, featuring @karriefransman.bsky.social @rikworth.bsky.social and @paulfisherdavies.bsky.social, plus art to look at and snacks to enjoy! Book while you can, tickets are going fast!
rikworth.bsky.social Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · Oct 8
If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...
Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable & Exhibition Launch
An exploration of comics, research and creative practice. Part of Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I sure hope the state will compensate me for the administrative labour I'll inevitably have to spend time and effort on in supporting my parents' and 94-year-old grandmother's acquisition and use of the digital ID.
September 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Turn on telly, Nickelback is on. Guess I've arrived in Belgium 👍
A television screen mounted too high on a wall featuring a shot of Chad Kroeger in the video of the Nickelback song "How You Remind Me"
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Damn, look how many of you have filled in the survey in its first week! (Yes I *have* made a respondent-meter like it’s a village hall fundraiser - let me have my little whimsies)

If you have ten mins to join in the fun, the link is here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk
A meter showing how many people have responded to the uk comics creator survey 2025. So far it’s at 289! The minimum target is 380 to be statistically representative, and 623 responded in 2020
September 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Something special today at BF!

Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read @tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF.

www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-again... #NoToAIArt
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) - Read Tom Humberstone's Comic 'I'm a Luddite! (And So Can You!)' on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF – Broken Frontier
Tom Humberstone provides the lead story from his comics collection 'I'm A Luddite! (And So Can You!)' as part of our series on AI "art".
www.brokenfrontier.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Thank you again for having me Tim! Not sure "fun" is the right word, given the grim moments in the series we were talking about, but admittedly there were several occasions during this when I had to stifle my own laughs to avoid soiling the feed with incessant chuckling.
August 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Batman clutches a man on the ground, holding him up as he stares at the wall. Batman says, “Not ANOTHER puzzle! OK, what do these numbers MEAN?“ On the wall are the numbers 12, 781, 409, 14, 650, 123, 24, 341, 641. The person gripped by Batman replies, helpfully, “It doesn’t matter. We are ALL going to die in a NUCLEAR BLAST.“
August 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Can't believe I had to verify my age on here like a big baby.
July 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Photo of my TV paused on a shot of Ozzy Osbourne with the closed caption "SEAN CONNERY NOISES)"
July 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I did not have a Department of Education x Fantastic Four collab on my weird shit in 2025 bingo card but here we are.
July 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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PUBLICATION DAY!

Non-fiction, comedy comic aimed at 7-11 year olds, designed to encourage reading and critical thinking while supporting the KS2 curriculum and with brilliant artwork is by genius @jordancollver.bsky.social ?

What are you waiting for?
#KidsLitUk

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/pets...
July 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Commentary on Lorde's album cover not even referring to the correct body part, smh
June 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Good morning
a pizza made with a roast chicken, cheese, tomatoes, chocolate sprinkles, and M&Ms with the caption, "When you incorporate the feedback from every critique."
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.
My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market
May 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Spotted in the wild @kaysohini.bsky.social's graphic memoir (among the classics) at the Book Hive in Norwich
A copy of This Beautiful, Ridiculous City on display among other comic books.
May 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Bleak.

nymag.com/intelligence...
Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)
May 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Watching y'all use SkyNet AI
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in The Terminator 2: Judgement Day, smoking a cigarette and giving deadly side-eye
May 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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m8, I just wanna help people make stuff and express themselves in meaningful ways ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
Telegraph headline for a piece written by Michael Mosbacher: This must be Britain's most ungrateful profession Unjustified complaints from those paid to pursue their passions are ceaseless. Preview text: Anyone who has had even the most passing acquaintance with university professors will have learnt one thing about them as a breed - they feel hard done by and are not afraid to tell you...
May 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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A scene from The Simpsons depicting Mr Burns explaining his plan to block out the sun to Smithers.
April 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I'll be running my annual ecofemist craftivism workshop at UEA's @greenfilmfestival.bsky.social on 3 May at @norwichcastle.bsky.social

It's a free, fun, gentle crafting session with a feminist environmental ethos. Booking essential www.tickettailor.com/events/green...
Select tickets – Everyday Change Through Creativity: Ecofeminist Collage and Placard Workshop – Norwich Castle
This Workshop draws inspiration from ecofeminist activism that considers the relationship between people and the environment. ...
www.tickettailor.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Weirdly alarmist take, this: (1) the "studio system" hasn't existed since 1948, what are they on about and (2) the thought that Ryan Coogler negotiating a favourable deal for his vampire movie is making "Hollywood execs" tremble in their boots is oddly making me want to see it more.
Headline from Vulture: "Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler's Sinners Deal 'Could End the Studio System'"
April 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Please consider supporting the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report asking DCMS for investment in comics forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...
April 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I get right-wing trolls doing the Ghibli AI images but seeing so many people generating images of their babies and pets... Like, you know you could pay an artist to do you an anime family portrait, right?
March 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM