How to Create Feminist Superheroes
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sana Amanat has been called the "Shonda Rhimes of Marvel Comics" and an IRL superhero. C&C explore how this awkward-teen-turned-visionary-VP has helped lead an inclusive superhero comics revolution and what it takes to create actually feminist sheroes — whether fanboys like it or not.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to the White House. |
| 0:13.4 | Thank you, Santa, for your incredible work. |
| 0:16.5 | Miss Marvel may be your comic book creation, but I think for a lot of young boys and girls, |
| 0:23.7 | Santa's a real life superhero. |
| 0:26.2 | There are a lot of men in this room. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey y'all and welcome to Unlady like the show that finds out what happens when women break |
| 0:47.6 | the rules. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm Kristen. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Caroline and today's guest has been described as the shonda rhymes of Marvel comics in a straight-up, |
| 0:55.9 | superhero by President Obama. |
| 0:58.6 | No big deal. |
| 0:59.6 | Okay, so hi. |
| 1:01.4 | My name is Santa Manath. |
| 1:02.5 | I am the VP of content and character development at Marvel Entertainment, Super Fancy |
| 1:09.0 | Title, but not a fancy person. |
| 1:12.8 | And I live in New York City. |
| 1:15.1 | That's where the Marvel headquarters are. |
| 1:16.9 | I will not say specifically where because I have a lot of people who don't like me out |
| 1:20.8 | there. |
| 1:21.8 | So I'm going to give it big as possible. |
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