Sexuali-tea

Hello, hello. This week Lysa and special special guest Dana discuss queerness in the Thor franchise (mostly the films but also the comics). This is the second part of a two-parter episode, which was recorded before Avengers: Endgame premiered. The first part of the episode is already out, so if you haven't listened to that one, pause this one and go back. In the first episode, we talked about the third instalment Thor: Ragnarok generally and then anti-colonialism. In this episode, we talk about the characters, their ships and their representations.  Spoilers for all the Thor, Captain America, and Avengers franchises (including Infinity War but not Endgame). Please heed the content warnings. CW for: mentions of abuse and child abuse, incest, genocide, sexual violence against women (brief mention), colonialism, Hitler and WWII, suicide and depression. Dana mistakenly identifies Agent Sitwell (played by Maximiliano Hernández) as white and I didn’t correct her, so I’m correcting that now. Kenneth Burke is the per