Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks Bitch Planet x politics of objectification. #ComicsStudies

Kelly Sue DeConnick & Valentine de Landro’s “Bitch Planet” features considerable nudity (which we will have to censor here). It’s also indebted to exploitation aesthetics. Yet it consistently–and intersectionally–engages & challenges the politics of objectification. 1/15 #ComicsStudies #BitchPlanet

Our latest for @sequentialscholars.bsky.social talks Bitch Planet x women-in-prison films. #ComicsStudies #FilmStudies

In our last thread, we discussed some general contexts of exploitation films and their relevance to “Bitch Planet.” Now we’re going to zero in on the comic’s engagement with the complex politics of a specific subgenre of exploitation: the women-in-prison” film. 1/12 #ComicsStudies #BitchPlanet