![]() ![]() Kamala is a typical New Jersey teenager who has to deal with the reality of juggling her background and upbringing in America. Marvel about? It’s the Spiderman of the 21st century. In the post 9-11 world Muslim people have had to deal with increasing islamophobia and hatred. ![]() Ms Marvel is a lifeline and utterly inspiring for those of Muslim and middle eastern backgrounds who until recently had seldom seen themselves represented in media unless negatively. They were brought up catholic instead of Muslim and when a Turkish man tried to assassinate the pope it resulted in racist abuse from fellow students. As a girl with sisters who didn’t look white, but didn’t look like a specific ethnicity or race my mum and her family endured horrible racism. Marvel…Not a sixteen year old brown girl with a 9pm curfew.’ I think if my mum had been able to experience the Kamala Khan version of Ms Marvel she might have found the representation empowering and comforting. I saved somebody’s life today….But everybody’s expecting Ms. As Kamala says early on in this volume ‘I have super powers. ![]() Someone who looked utterly different to her as a mixed race Turkish girl. The photo my brother found one day was faded…In it my mum was reading a 1970s issue of the Carol Danvers Ms Marvel. This might seem like an outlandish thing to say, but it’s true. ![]() Marvel or Kamala Khan we have a comic character that is changing visual media and the world. It lets us know that we aren’t different or weird and it makes us know we aren’t alone. ![]()
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