Hey everyone, it's Amad. I just wanted to let you know that after this episode, we're going to go on a short holiday break. We'll be back in the new year with two episodes. We're going to drop them together. We're going to cover episode six, the season finale of the TV show. And then we're going to cover The Marvels, the movie, with Connor Goldsmith of Cerebro Podcast. That show is like a pretty big influence on how we organize Generation M. so I'm excited for you to listen to that.

In the meantime, Goldsmith of Cerebro podcast. That show is like a pretty big influence on how we organize Generation M.

So I'm excited for you to listen to that.

In the meantime, please enjoy and see you soon. You know what's what? What a man? Khamalakhan? Khamahakhan.

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what?

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all of the Hello, I'm Amadal Yuckberg, I'm a James Beard award-winning writer and podcast host, and this is episode five of Generation M, recapping Ms. Marvel.

Each week, I'm joined by co-hosts and guests to go deep on the various influences on Kamala Khan from South Asian Muslim history to comic books. This episode will be discussing episode five of the Disney Plus TV show. We're getting towards the end. There is no Waleed or Alana this time, but I'm joined by a very special guest, Dr. Hussain Rashid. Hello, Hussein. Al-Alam. How you doing? I'm very good. Hussein has done a lot of really interesting work. He's the Assistant Dean of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School, where I also got a master's, although we had no overlap. We are proud to claim you as in a long. And also founder of Religious Consultancy Group, Islamicate. And importantly for this show, he co-edited an academic volume of essays with Jessica Baldanzi called Ms. Marvel's America No Normal. Can you tell me about that essay collection? Yeah, I would love to. First, I want to tell you for having me on and encourage your listeners to buy it, because if I sell five million copies, I can afford a cup of coffee at the end of this show.

Academic royalties are not healthy.

I love the volume.

Jessica actually approached me through mutual friend, Shabon Amir, who's in Chicago, and said, hey, do we want to do something on

Willow Wilson's first run of Miss Marvel, the first 19 episodes, 19 issues? And we thought it would be

great to do it as a backdoor to the humanities. There's so much happening around Kamala's

life story that we just got a whole bunch of authors coming in from a bunch of different

disciplines.

And so if you want to read Kamala Khan in 12 different ways, this is the volume for you.

Who are some of the other people who contributed to that volume?

So obviously, Jessica and I have essays in there.

Shabana has an interview with G. Willa Wilson.

We have Nick Pumfrey in there doing stuff on fandom studies.

We have a whole bunch of

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