thepoliticalnotebook:
Marvel’s new addition to its superhero line-up: Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American Muslim girl living in Jersey City who takes the name Ms. Marvel.
I’m not really part of the comic book world; I saw Avengers and that’s pretty much it. But I find the push (and inevitable pushback) in the comic book industry to successfully incorporate women and non-white characters into their superhero line-ups very interesting. Sana Amanat, one of the co-creators of Kamala Khan, has some worthwhile things to say about creating the character and how she thinks she will be received by audiences, some of whom have so far had a little bit of difficulty accommodating the idea of change within the genre.
[New York Times]