https://padlet.com/dstam007/ifvkzmrgw1n93lei en-us 2021-02-10 18:35:44 UTC 2021-02-11 04:48:57 UTC hello@padlet.com dstam007 https://padlet.com/dstam007/ifvkzmrgw1n93lei/wish/1190435754 "If these characters had obtained their powers in some other way, other than by genetic mutations, then they wouldn’t be able to tell the stories they do because the foundation of so many of those stories is: we’re different but we wanna just fit in like everybody else."

Neil Degrasse Tyson, "Allegory in X-Men," American Rebels

]]> 2021-02-11 03:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dstam007/ifvkzmrgw1n93lei/wish/1190435754 dstam007 https://padlet.com/dstam007/ifvkzmrgw1n93lei/wish/1190440891 “The gene, meanwhile, invades discourses concerning race, racial discrimination, and “racial intelligence,” and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions coursing through our political and cultural realms. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, identity, and choice, thus piercing the center of some of the most urgent questions coursing through our personal realms.”

Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene]]> 2021-02-11 03:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dstam007/ifvkzmrgw1n93lei/wish/1190440891 dstam007 https://padlet.com/dstam007/ifvkzmrgw1n93lei/wish/1190442983 “How then do I speak to him of this world’s masterminds who render you a supporting actor in your own story? How do I speak of the Sentinels whose eyes melt history, until the world forgets that in 1962, the quintessential mutants of America were black?”

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The New York Times]]> 2021-02-11 03:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dstam007/ifvkzmrgw1n93lei/wish/1190442983