Episode 039: Xuân Cao Manh (feat. Sara Century)
CEREBRO
Connor Goldsmith
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 228 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 39 of CEREBRO, Connor and writer and critic Sara Century (Bitches on Comics) are possessed by the power of Xi'an Coy Manh, the courageous Karma! The first confirmed lesbian character in the X-Men franchise, Xi'an was the original leader of the New Mutants, but has never received as much care and attention on the page as her classmates. She is a protagonist of the new run of New Mutants by Vita Ayala and Rod Reis.
The CEREBRO character file on Karma begins at 1:56:11.
(Content Advisory: Xi'an's story includes rape, disordered eating, fatphobia, ableism, homophobia, suicidal ideation and attempted suicide, brainwashing, human trafficking, slavery, and limb amputation. Her origin is closely tied to the real world Vietnamese boat refugee crisis.)
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| 0:00.0 | she's like, Rain, can you please come back? |
| 0:01.3 | I can't teach two squadrons. |
| 0:02.7 | And Rain's like, I do not think it would be appropriate. |
| 0:05.3 | Which, like, you're right. |
| 0:06.4 | Stay away. |
| 0:07.7 | Good instinct for once in your fucking life. |
| 0:09.7 | X-Men, X-Men. |
| 0:13.0 | In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world. |
| 0:21.7 | Only hope is X-Men. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, |
| 0:30.4 | where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, |
| 0:35.8 | and with me today is our second three-peat guest |
| 0:38.4 | after the illustrious teeny teenie Howard, Sarah Century, Cerebra's official lesbian correspondent, |
| 0:44.1 | who is here with me today. To talk about Chiang Koema, better known as Karma, the first |
| 0:51.5 | lesbian character in the X-Men franchise, one of the original New Mutants, |
| 0:55.4 | created by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, weirdly. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.7 | In 1980s, Marvel Team Up 100. |
| 1:02.1 | And then spun off into the New Mutants book that Claremont launched with Bob McLeod. |
| 1:08.2 | Before we dig in too deep, I want to acknowledge that we are obviously |
| 1:11.9 | two white people talking about the most prominent Vietnamese character at Marvel. And on top of that, |
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