#outlawed

[girlactionfigure]

The British government: The Islamist organization "Hizb al-Tahrir", which is among the organizers of the Palestinian protests throughout the UK, "is a terrorist organization", and "is therefore outlawed.”

#UK #Hizb al-Tahrir #Terror Organization #Outlawed

[saecookie]

Cyclops. Scott Summers. Current X-Man. Always a Champion.

#champions #champions outlawed #cyclops #scott summers #ms marvel #kamala khan #spider-man #miles morales #ironheart #riri williams #nova #sam alexander #dust #Sooraya Qadir #marvel comics #marvel #comics #Eve Ewing #Simone Di Meo #outlawed #champions 2020

[pridepages]

🌈 Happy Pride! 🌈

This June, good things come in sets of six as I spotlight some of my favorite rainbow reads.

✨ Category is: Be Gay, Do Crime✨

Learn more about these titles under the cut!

A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar (a YA historical sapphic thriller as a girl gang sets out to pull off a heist on the high seas. But the mission turns into a deadly race against the clock when the Titanic strike an iceberg… Rep: F/F, BIPOC characters)

Outlawed by Anna North (Historical fiction, in a world where AFAB people are reduced to their reproductive value, an outlaw band seeks to create a paradise for the forgotten queer children who dare to defy the norm. Rep: trans/nonbinary mc, sapphic characters)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (Dark Historical Romance, In Victorian England, a thief poses as a lady’s maid to con her employer. But what happens when she falls for the mark? Rep: F/F)

Aces Wild by Amanda Dewitt (YA, a group of online friends meets IRL to plan a casino heist to save one of their own. Ever thought Ocean’s 11 would be better without the distraction of sex and romance? Rep: NB/M, trans/nonbinary mc, asexual mcs, asexual scs, aromantic scs, BIPOC characters)

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (Historical Romance, a young lordling hires an ex highway man to teach him how to stand and deliver. The two find their partnership becomes more than they bargained for. Rep: M/M, gay mc, bisexual characters)

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen (Historical Mystery, an ex policeman newly outed and ostracized is given a new job: investigate the death of a mysterious soap magnate. But behind the doors of Lavender House hides more than one secret…could someone among this queer found family have murdered one of their own? Rep: M/M, F/F, gay characters, lesbian scs)

#a million to one #adiba jaigirdar #outlawed #anna north #fingersmith #sarah waters #aces wild #amanda dewitt #the queer principles of kit webb #cat sebastian #lavender house #lev ac rosen #mlm #gay #wlw #lesbian #bisexual #lgbt reads #queer lit #asexual #trans #nonbinary #aromantic #lgbtqia #be gay do crime #book recs #pride #pride month

[samasmith23]

The best Saladin Ahmed Ms. Marvel scene

One of the strongest elements from the original G. Willow Wilson run on Ms. Marvel IMO was the complicated relationship between Kamala Khan and her best friend Bruno Carrelli. While Kamala & Bruno already had a long history as childhood friends, Wilson portrayed both characters struggling with developing romantic feelings for each another due to them now being teenagers and dealing with hormones and all that jazz. Saladin Ahmed followed-up on this subplot during his run on Magnificent Ms. Marvel after Wilson left the title, and in Issue #9 seems to finally settle the "will-they/won't they" drama of the character's relationship by having Kamala suddenly kiss Bruno when she was torn between stopping a supervillain's rampage and staying at the hospital with her dying Abu.

However, by Issue #15 after Kamala felt awkward about publicly dating Bruno and suffered a near-death experience due to the events of the Outlawed crossover, the two decide to have an incredibly honest and earnest conversation about the status of their relationship:

Although I’ve used to be a huge shipper of these two as a couple, I can honestly understand both Kamala & Bruno’s perspectives here on why they feel it won’t work for them and feel they should just stay friends despite their feelings for one-another. And I love how Kamala acknowledges being confused about her feelings for Bruno since she kissed him in a heat of passion when she was emotionally stressed due to other factors like the Stormranger Nanosuit influencing Kamala's physical behavior to try and kill her arch-nemesis Discord (aka, Josh Richardson) and her grief and anger over her Abu dying in the hospital while she had to go off and fight the supervillain Mr. Hyde.

Additionally, Bruno acknowledges that maybe he was too fixated in the ideal relationship he always imagined having with Kamala that and ended up being a jerk about wanting to be more open about their relationship after the kiss. And while it’s a more subtle implication, Bruno’s mentioning of his ex-girlfriend Mike from G. Willow Wilson’s run is a reference to Bruno and Mike’s relationship developing at a more natural pace without any of the awkward baggage that comes with Bruno & Kamala being best friends since childhood.

Furthermore, this conversation between Kamala & Bruno served as a nice callback to the rooftop scene from the Last Days arc of Wilson’s run wherein Kamala similarly stated that she wasn't ready to pursue romance due to her life as Ms. Marvel. Except here, Ahmed provides some resolution and closure to Wilson leaving possibility of a relationship developing between the two open-ended, settling on the two characters deciding that the messiness of being a couple isn't worth risking their friendship over.

Overall, I was surprisingly impressed by how Saladin Ahmed handled Kamala and Bruno maturely sorting out their relationship and their decision to remain friends going forward. And I say all this as someone who defended and championed the KamalaXBruno ship for quite awhile (especially since a large subsection of Ms. Marvel fans on Twitter seem to actively despise Bruno as a character for reasons that I honestly don't understand...).

From Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #15 by Saladin Ahmed & Minkyu Jung.

#ms marvel #kamala khan #ms marvel kamala khan #ms marvel comics #magnificent ms marvel #bruno carrelli #saladin ahmed #minkyu jung #ian herring #marvel comics #outlawed #mini essay

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1933 – The anti-Fianna Fáil Army Comrades Association, which developed into a fascist-inspired group nicknamed the “Blueshirts,” is outlawed.

Éamon de Valera denounced the Blue Shirts organisation as unlawful, yet despite the Government’s ban, the Blueshirts also known as the National Guard paraded throughout the country. The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland and finally League of Youth, but better known by the nickname The Blueshirts, was a far-right organisation in the Irish Free State in…

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#Army Comrades Association #Éamon De Valera #Banned #Banner of the Blueshirts #Blueshirts #Civic Guard #Co. Monaghan #Eoin O&039;Duffy #Fascist #Fine Fail #Fine Gael #Garda Síochana #General Franco #National Guard #Outlawed #Spain

[watch-joey-collect]

#Champions #5 #Snowguard #Ironheart #Brawn #Nova #Spider-Man #Ms. Marvel #Wasp #Outlawed #Marvel #Toni Infante

[seeseagulls]

#seagull #animal #bird #my #outlawed

[potterandpromises]

Random Word BPC

Day 23: Struggle

#random word bpc #book photography #outlawed #currently reading

[shokuto]

What if Outlawed was a battle royale everyone has to compete in if they're under 21 and whether or not they can actually remain a superhero hinges entirely on their performance...it'd be insane but god would it be entertaining

#outlawed #champions

[cryptidussy]

Just got "Outlawed" by Anna North and I REALLY hope it's worth it!!! Anyone else read it?

#cowboy #cowboys #anna north #books #reading #literature #fiction #outlawed

[pridepages]

The Good Word: Outlawed

I just finished Outlawed by Anna North. I have thoughts...

Here there be spoilers!

What a thrill to discover a Western about queer women! In timely novel Outlawed, Anna North reimagines American history such that the United States falls apart in the 1800s. In the aftermath of Civil War and a terrible disease called simply The Flu, a kind of Christian theocracy arises. In this society, fertility is holy: men and women are forced into heterosexual marriages with the goal of reproducing fast. Any woman who cannot get pregnant is stigmatized as barren. At best, she will be divorced. At worst, she risks being executed for witchcraft.

Enter heroine Ada Magnusson. Ada is a daughter of a midwife and has learned medical practice, and some medical science, in the years before her marriage. Unfortunately, Ada is one of the unlucky barren women who finds herself cast out by her husband. Worse yet, when other women start to lose babies, the witch-finders start whispering...Ada flees first to a convent and then determines to set off on a journey to find an expert in female fertility in hopes of saving other women from her fate. Along the way, Ada falls in with The Hole in the Wall Gang.

The Gang is comprised of multiple queer and gender non-conforming people, all of whom were assigned female at birth. Cast out by their families for various reasons, they bring their various skills including: acting, costuming, sharp-shooting, horse-wrangling, and homemaking to their camp. They are led by The Kid, a mysterious yet charismatic figure. The Kid is a kind of queer messiah: “Not he, not she. The Kid is just the Kid,” explains one member. And The Kid has a vision to reshape the world and make a place safe for outcasts.

It would have been easy to write a narrative in which religion is vilified as the prejudicial force that stigmatizes anything that doesn’t fall in with perfect white heterosexuality. So many queer people, even in 2022, can sympathize with Ada when she “tasted the same stale bitterness in my mouth, like tea gone cold in the cup overnight, that I’d tasted every time the Mother Superior read us Psalm 127.” Religion has been weaponized against queer people for centuries, and it is no wonder that so many turn their backs on faith!

Instead, North has created a portrait of the genuinely faithful queer person. She made The Kid a trained preacher who has found a new flock. The Kid often quotes the Bible in impromptu sermons where the Gang is urged to be brave, to be compassionate, or to keep faith in their missions. The Kid explains it this way to Ada:

“And on the three hundred and seventy-ninth day we came over the red wall and saw this valley spread out before us, the land between two rivers that God promised to Abraham...And I knew that this land was to be ours...for the descendants of our minds and hearts, all those cast out of their homes and banished by their families, all those slandered and maligned, imprisoned and abused...I knew that we would build a nation of the dispossessed, where we would be not barren women, but kings.”

Far from feeling abandoned by God, The Kid maintains faith even in the face of terrible personal loss and tragedy. The Kid insists that people like the members of the Gang are God’s children as much as anyone else, and that they are entitled to a place where they can live freely and fully. The Kid is determined to realize that vision in the face of the odds and manages to do so with a warm, unshakable optimism.

So while there is so much to love about this novel: a cinematic Western romp, a heist, a very timely commentary on women’s rights to their bodies, nonbinary gender presentations, a sharp-shooting sapphic, and so much more, one of the novel’s particular achievements is how it shows that there is room for faith in the queer experience. It is understandable that queer people suffering from religious trauma may reject the idea of God. But for the ones who need faith in a hard world, Outlawed reminds us that faith need not be blind. Maybe we have faith in God. Maybe we just have faith in the people we love. But it is through faith that we find the strength to keep striving to achieve a more perfect world. Maybe, with enough, we’ll be able to realize The Kid’s dream of heaven on Earth.

#outlawed #anna north #queer lit #lgbt reads #sapphic #wlw #nonbinary

[samasmith23]

It was really awesome to see Discord’s arc receive some resolution in Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #17, with Kamala not only freeing Josh from the Lovecraftian villain Monopoly’s mind-control but also Josh's decision to voluntarily surrender himself to the authorities and finally accepting responsibility for his crimes!

Josh has been my favorite Ms. Marvel villain since the Mecca arc of G. Willow Wilson's run and Saladin Ahmed provides some solid closure for Josh's role as an antagonist in the penultimate issue of Magnificent Ms. Marvel!

From Magnificent Ms. Marvel (2019) #17 by Saladin Ahmed & Minkyu Jung.

#ms marvel kamala khan #ms marvel #kamala khan #magnificent ms marvel #discord #josh richardson #dum dum dugan #saladin ahmed #minkyu jung #outlawed #marvel comics

[gyllenhallelujah]

i’m only gonna say this once: white boys twerking should be ILLEGAL

#OUTLAWED #someone call biden seriously #bb24 lb #bb24 #aja.txt

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1933 – The anti-Fianna Fáil Army Comrades Association, which developed into a fascist-inspired group nicknamed the “Blueshirts,” is outlawed.

#OTD in 1933 – The anti-Fianna Fáil Army Comrades Association, which developed into a fascist-inspired group nicknamed the “Blueshirts,” is outlawed.

Éamon de Valera denounced the Blue Shirts organisation as unlawful, yet despite the Government’s ban, the Blueshirts also known as the National Guard paraded throughout the country. The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland and finally League of Youth, but better known by the nickname The Blueshirts, was a far-right organisation in the Irish Free State in…

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#Army Comrades Association #Éamon De Valera #Banned #Banner of the Blueshirts #Blueshirts #Civic Guard #Co. Monaghan #Eoin O&039;Duffy #Fascist #Fine Fail #Fine Gael #Garda Síochana #General Franco #National Guard #Outlawed #Spain

[watch-joey-collect]

#Champions #5 #Ms. Marvel #Spider-Man #Starling #Viv Vision #Bombshell #Snowguard #Locust #Outlawed #Marvel #Toni Infante

[hyperspacedark]

So this was next on my to-read shelf but i dunno, thinking it might be a little too on the nose atm

#abortion rights #roe v wade #scotus #outlawed