Portrait Of: Gabby Rivera
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When Gabby Rivera wrote her coming-of-age novel “Juliet Takes a Breath” in 2016, she didn't know that it would get her attention from an unusual place: Marvel Comics. They asked her to write for America Chavez, their first queer Latina superhero. Gabby said yes. But as she was writing for their superhero, she found herself swept up in #comicsgate, an online harassment campaign against the comic book industry’s efforts to include more women, people of color and LGBTQ characters. In this "Portrait Of," Maria sits talked to Gabby about her beginnings as a writer, her difficult experience with #comicsgate and about returning to comic book writing.
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| 0:40.0 | Hi! |
| 0:47.0 | Hi! |
| 0:49.0 | Hi! |
| 0:50.0 | Nice to see you! |
| 0:53.0 | On a Monday afternoon, writer Gabi Rimera is visiting her local comic book store. |
| 1:00.0 | It's a place in downtown Oakland that's called Cape and Cowell. |
| 1:04.0 | You remember I've come in for like, uh, adventure comics and stuff? |
| 1:08.0 | What's you got? Anything fun? |
| 1:10.0 | Anything new? |
| 1:11.0 | We're doing a little poking around her. |
| 1:13.0 | This is where Gabi looks for heroes who are not your basic white guy. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm gonna grab that. |
| 1:18.0 | I want like, you know, girls' chicken ass basically, right? |
| 1:23.0 | Like, I want to grab a... |
| 1:24.0 | Miss Marvel shoes. |
| 1:27.0 | As Gabi is flicking through comics at the comic book store, there's a young man who's wearing thick black glasses and a camouflage jacket. |
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