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miriam kent

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Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Leeds. I primarily research popular feminism in superhero films, TV & comic books. Leeds UCU Rep 🇩🇪🇬🇧 she/her Women in Marvel Films https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-in-marvel-films.html

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jan 9

Forgot to post in the excitement of last year finally ending, but happy to announce my article on Black Widow, gender and genre is our now, open access: doi.org/10.1080/1050...

Beyond the Red Room: Cold War II, Genre and Feminism in Marvel Studios’ Black Widow

Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 14d

My dad broke out in sweats yesterday because he was required to do online safeguarding training for supply teaching. He couldn't figure out how the pedagogically "innovative" interactive learning tasks worked. He nearly had a nervous breakdown.

miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 14d

I sure hope the state will compensate me for the administrative labour I'll inevitably have to spend time and effort on in supporting my parents' and 94-year-old grandmother's acquisition and use of the digital ID.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · 23d

Turn on telly, Nickelback is on. Guess I've arrived in Belgium 👍

A television screen mounted too high on a wall featuring a shot of Chad Kroeger in the video of the Nickelback song "How You Remind Me"

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 29d

Damn, look how many of you have filled in the survey in its first week! (Yes I *have* made a respondent-meter like it’s a village hall fundraiser - let me have my little whimsies)

If you have ten mins to join in the fun, the link is here: ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A meter showing how many people have responded to the uk comics creator survey 2025. So far it’s at 289! The minimum target is 380 to be statistically representative, and 623 responded in 2020

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · Aug 28

Something special today at BF!

Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) – Read @tomhumberstone.com Tom Humberstone’s Comic ‘I’m a Luddite! (And So Can You!)’ on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF.

www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-again... #NoToAIArt

Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI “Art” (Interlude) - Read Tom Humberstone's Comic 'I'm a Luddite! (And So Can You!)' on AI Art, Luddism and Activism Here at BF – Broken Frontier

Tom Humberstone provides the lead story from his comics collection 'I'm A Luddite! (And So Can You!)' as part of our series on AI "art".

www.brokenfrontier.com

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you again for having me Tim! Not sure "fun" is the right word, given the grim moments in the series we were talking about, but admittedly there were several occasions during this when I had to stifle my own laughs to avoid soiling the feed with incessant chuckling.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · Aug 19

New! It was so good - and so unnervingly prescient - that all of the critics moaning about 'superhero fatigue' seem to have forgotten to mention it. Miriam Kent (@miriamkent.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about Daredevil: Born Again!

timworthington.org/2025/06/02/i...

It’s Good, Except It Sucks: Daredevil: Born Again With Miriam Kent

Miriam Kent joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Frank Castle discovering just how many types of ‘behind bars’ it’s possible to be in Daredevil: Born Again.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 12

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Aug 15

Love this! (will include it in my essay workshop lecture in which I go off on one about ChatGPT)

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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · Aug 9

Batman clutches a man on the ground, holding him up as he stares at the wall. Batman says, “Not ANOTHER puzzle! OK, what do these numbers MEAN?“ On the wall are the numbers 12, 781, 409, 14, 650, 123, 24, 341, 641. The person gripped by Batman replies, helpfully, “It doesn’t matter. We are ALL going to die in a NUCLEAR BLAST.“

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jul 24

Can't believe I had to verify my age on here like a big baby.

miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Photo of my TV paused on a shot of Ozzy Osbourne with the closed caption "SEAN CONNERY NOISES)"

miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jul 20

I hope for precisely that to happen 😂

miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jul 20

Assuming the film will make an impression and people won't have forgotten about it by then 🥲

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jul 20

I did not have a Department of Education x Fantastic Four collab on my weird shit in 2025 bingo card but here we are.

Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · Jul 20

The UK government does a promotional deal between Disney?Marvels new Fantastic Four movie and the Department For Education - "It's Lobbying Time!"

The UK government does a promotional deal between Disney?Marvels new Fantastic Four movie and the Department For Education

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FredRIK WORTHam 🎃 @rikworth.bsky.social · Jul 17

PUBLICATION DAY!

Non-fiction, comedy comic aimed at 7-11 year olds, designed to encourage reading and critical thinking while supporting the KS2 curriculum and with brilliant artwork is by genius @jordancollver.bsky.social ?

What are you waiting for?
#KidsLitUk

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/pets...

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jun 27

Commentary on Lorde's album cover not even referring to the correct body part, smh

miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jun 24

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jun 24

Plus half my database is still stuck in Mendeley, which I used to use before it got a terrible update and then never got round to properly copying over to Zot. It's a chaotic life.

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miriam kent @miriamkent.bsky.social · Jun 24

I Zotero the first draft but then end up manually copying each reference over and editing it in the final draft because I do not trust the technology. And then any reference I add after peer review gets added manually because I'm too lazy to start the software for 1-2 citations.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · May 29

Good morning

a pizza made with a roast chicken, cheese, tomatoes, chocolate sprinkles, and M&Ms with the caption, "When you incorporate the feedback from every critique."

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · May 7

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.