Content Warning: discussions of murder, gender dysphoria, queer violence.
Join Drs. Caitlinn Curry and Randall Ulyate as they explore the tales of the Amazons and the concept of gender from Ancient Greece to today. Dr. Marissa Aro joins as a special guest to talk about the importance of representation in comics such as the Amazons and Black Panther.
Marissa's interview starts at 37:40.
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Bibliography:
“Kaos’s Caeneus is part of a long tradition of queer and trans characters in retellings of ancient myths” by Suzanne O'Neillhttps://theconversation.com/kaoss-caeneus-is-part-of-a-long-tradition-of-queer-and-trans-characters-in-retellings-of-ancient-myths-239269
I used this article too ahahhahaah
Ovid’s Metamorphosis Mandelbaum
Caeneus and Heroic (Trans)Masculinity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Charlotte Northrop Arethusa, Volume 53, Number 1, Winter 2020, pp. 25-41 (Article)
“Amazon Women” https://www.worldhistory.org/amazon/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Caeneus
Mandelbaum, Allen, translator. The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993.
The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images. Edited by Ami Ronnberg and Kathleen Martin. Taschen, 2010.
The Iliad, translated by Caroline Alexander.