Love's Not Colorblind with Kevin Patterson
1h 18m
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Artgasm
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Polyamory educator and comic book aficionado Kevin Patterson joins Artgasm to talk Black Panther, Get Out, Black masculinity, and his deep love for the X-Men.
Plus:
The Oppression and Privilege of Polyamory | Race and Polyamory | Being a Sports Nerd | Masculinity and Open Relationships | Being a “Blerd” | Gatekeeping Fandom | Black Masculinity on Film | Black Dystopia vs. Black Utopia | Afrofuturism | Beefs with Characters Who Don’t Kill | The Problem with Single Readings on Subjects | Flawed Blackness vs Black Perfection | X-Men As Family | Superheroes with a Social Message | Ryan Coogler’s Repertoire | When Superhero Movies Go Deeper | Fruitvale Station | Non-Toxic Masculinity in the MCU | Erik Stevens as Batman | Being a Black man with white partners | The Evil Genius of the Get Out Villain | Escalation of Microaggressions | Afrofuturism | NK Jemison & Nnedi Okorafor & Janelle Monae
Find out more about Kevin:
Poly Role Models on Tumblr: http://polyrolemodels.tumblr.com/
Poly Role Models: https://twitter.com/polyrolemodels
Love’s Not Colorblind:http://a.co/g94g7PW
Notes from the opening:
The Story of Emmett Till: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
A Portrait of Artist Dana Schutz’s Son Reframes Issues of Consent and Appropriation
https://hyperallergic.com/447550/hamishi-farah-dana-schutzs-portrait-appropriation-consent-liste-art-fair/
Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till
https://hyperallergic.com/368290/censorship-not-the-painting-must-go-on-dana-schutzs-image-of-emmett-till/
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