Captain Marvel Movie: Skrulls are People Too

Captain Marvel merits a conversation that can celebrate it’s feminism and anti-Imperialist themes while criticizing its Air Force propaganda packaging. Queer subtext? 90s throwbacks? We’ve got you covered:

• Chelsea Manning is Captain Marvel!
• How we're shapeshifters (Elana's essay about feeling like a Skrull for Wired.com )
• Monica is the hero
• “Top Gun is why I almost enlisted, Don't Ask Don't Tell is why I didn’t”
• The meaning of Nick Fury’s Eye
• Carol and Maria holding the “gayz”

Felicia Perez is the Innovation Director at the Center for Story-based Strategy. She previously worked at the United Workers Congress, ACLU of Southern California & was a high school social studies for twelve years in the Los Angeles Unified School District where she was also an active union leader and chapter chair for United Teachers of Los Angeles.

Tea Fougner is the Editorial Director for Comics at King Features Syndicate. When she's not reading comics for work, she's reading comics for fun, drawing comics, dressing up as comic book characters, or watching comic adaptations on television. Tea is at @TeaberryBlue on everything.