The Poetry Vlog's video: Somaiya Daud on MCU Monstress Representation in Comics marvelcomicsuniverse

Author Somaiya Daud returns and discusses erasure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how the comic Monstress gets it right, and about representation and perspective in writing characters and story lines. Somaiya lives, works, and writes from Seattle, Washington. In 2018 her debut novel, Mirage, was released in the United States with Flatiron Books and the United Kingdom with Hodder & Stoughton. It was hailed as “poetically written”, “immersive and captivating” and “beautiful and necessary” by The School Library Journal, Booklist and Entertainment Weekly. Mirage has been shortlisted for the Children’s Africana Book Award and the Arab American Book Award. In 2020 Somaiya received her PhD in English Literature studies with a focus on world literature and nineteenth-century orientalism. ✔︎ https://www.somaiyabooks.com ✔︎ https://www.twitter.com/somaiyadaud ✔︎ https://www.instagram.com/somaiiiya . . . . . . . The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Full episodes include guests that range from unpublished and poetry-adjacent community stake-holders, to award-winning poets and scholars, to C. R.'s own students. The Poetry Vlog across its distribution channels believes in the worlds we can build through dialogue-based knowledge production, supporting open access scholarship, community-based research, and accessible pedagogy. The Spring 2020 Student Team: Gene Wang - Video Editor Emily Oomen - Video Editor Mimi Hoang - Illustrator Cheryl Wu - Content Writer & Designer Kristin Ruopp - Digital Marketing Coordinator Subscribe to our channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community: ✔︎ http://youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1 The Poetry Vlog Podcast: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog . . . . . . . Receive FREE snail mail stickers and magnets with newsletter sign-up at: ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Say hi: ✔︎ http://instagram.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ http://www.twitter.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.facebook.com/thepoetryvlog ✔︎ https://www.thepoetryvlog.com Support this project: ✔︎ https://anchor.fm/thepoetryvlog/support . . . . . . . Catch up on Seasons 1 & 2: ✔︎ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIc9vBng_A0scPpg9Wa7uVmxkE_Si5Ri Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center.