Meet the Board: Jenn Fang
The next in our series of interviews with the Girl-Wonder.org Board of Directors introduces Publications co-ordinator Jenn Fang.
What experience do you have?
I grew up reading comic books. As a blogger, I’ve been interested in the intersection between race & gender politics, and pop culture. At my blog, reappropriate.com, I discuss in detail how the representation of women and people of colour in comic books affects the formation of our racial and gender-based political identities. I’m also webmaster of The Outsiders, a comprehensive listing of Asian/Asian American characters in comics.
How did you become involved with Girl-Wonder.org?
I really started getting involved recently, as the board decided to become formalized as a non-profit organization. I’m very interested in encouraging new, up-and-coming comic book artists and writers to get involved in the industry, and help improve the diversity of folks making comic books.
What do you most hope to achieve for Girl-Wonder.org?
As described above, I would like to use Girl-Wonder.org as a launchpad for helping aspiring writers and artists get more involved. I’d also like to help expand our understanding of comic books by making discussions of race and gender in comic books more inclusive of minority communities.
How would you respond to falling into a pit of radioactive waste that gave you inexplicable powers instead of cancer?
That would be awesome! But, since my secret identity involves being a cancer researcher, it would be even more awesome if I fell into a pit of radioactive waste that gave me the power to cure cancer!
Complete: If kidnapped by a cackling supervillain in the service of tormenting my heroic significant other(s), I would -
play the distressed love interest, swoon and faint weakly and melodramatically, and lull the supervillain into telling me his villainous plans, then I would use my amazing cancer-curing powers to give the supervillain a massive cerebral tumour that caused him to hallucinate an endlessly repeating revival of “Rent” starring a pair of anthropomorphic cockatoos, destroy his earth-shattering laser that he was using to hold the cities of the world hostage, and make my own heroine-ic escape.
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