{"id":186379,"date":"2016-03-17T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T00:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=186379"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:22:15","slug":"423-meet-up-disabled-characters-in-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2016\/03\/17\/423-meet-up-disabled-characters-in-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/23 Meet-Up: Disabled Characters in Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Disability Visibility Project<\/strong> invites you to their first live event this April! We will meet-up and discuss disabled characters in comics at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missioncomicsandart.com\">Mission: Comics and Art<\/a> on <strong>April 23, 2016, at 3-4:30 pm in San Francisco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk about the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Favorite disabled characters and storylines in comics<\/li>\n<li>Major themes about disability in comics<\/li>\n<li>Problematic portrayals of disability in comics<\/li>\n<li>Superpowers as a metaphor for disability<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility of comic books<\/li>\n<li>\u2026and much more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special thanks to <strong>Mission: Comics and Art<\/strong> for hosting this event! They are located at:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"padding-left:60px;\">2250 Mission St.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left:60px;\">San Francisco, CA 94110<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left:60px;\">Phone: 415-695-1545<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During your visit, check out their display of comic books featuring disabled characters curated by Hamza Jaka and Alice Wong. Be sure to support your local comic book store!!<\/p>\n<p>Please notify Alice Wong no later than April 1 if you have any accommodation requests. For more information: <a href=\"mailto:DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com\">DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>About<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\">Disability Visibility Project<\/a> is a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability stories and culture.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Guest Host, Hamza Jaka<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>At age nine, Hamza learned one of the most important lessons in life from an Amazing-Web Slinger, with great power there must also come great responsibility (though it took him until 2010\u2019s Spectacular Spider-Girl to get the quote right). He\u2019s been hooked on comics ever since, collecting everything from Naruto to Sex Criminals, although Spider-Family series remain his favorites. He was also part of the group of young people in 2010 that co-created the Silver Scorpion, the first Muslim comic book superhero with a disability. \u201cComics made me believe anything was possible, and that I had my own great responsibilities to fulfill,\u201d he says. Hamza is currently a law student at UC-Berkeley Law and an advocate for disability rights and intersectional justice.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HamzaAJaka\">@HamzaAJaka<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Host, Alice Wong<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Alice Wong is the Founder and Project Coordinator of the <strong>Disability Visibility Project.<\/strong> The DVP is a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability stories and culture.<\/p>\n<p>She is a contributor to <a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdsofcolor.org\">The Nerds of Color<\/a> and strongly identifies with the X-Men. You can read her origin story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenerdsofcolor.org\/2014\/04\/03\/a-mutant-from-planet-cripton-an-origin\/\">http:\/\/thenerdsofcolor.org\/2014\/04\/03\/a-mutant-from-planet-cripton-an-origin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFdirewolf\">@SFdirewolf<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Additional great reads:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicssociety.org\/call-for-papers-disability-and-superheroes\/\">Call for Papers: Disability and Superheroes<\/a> (deadline 6\/30\/16)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/SFdirewolf\/marvelcomicsuniverse-and-disability-filmdis-chat\">Marvel Comics Universe and Disability<\/a>\u00a0Disability Visibility Project Twitter chat (April 18, 2015)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/SFdirewolf\/daredevil-and-disability\">Daredevil &amp; Disability<\/a>\u00a0Disability Visibility Project Twitter chat (April 10, 2015)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feministsonar.com\/2016\/02\/deadpool-as-disability-narrative\/\">Deadpool As Disability Narrative<\/a>\u00a0By Elsa S. Henry (2\/19\/16), Feminist Sonar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/fiskal-responsibilty\/\">Fiskal Responsibility: How a Supervillain Did Right by Autistic Characters<\/a>\u00a0By Zack Budryk (5\/18\/15), The Mary Sue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disability Visibility Project invites you to their first live event this April! We will meet-up and discuss disabled characters in comics at Mission: Comics and Art on April 23, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2016\/03\/17\/423-meet-up-disabled-characters-in-comics\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4\/23 Meet-Up: Disabled Characters in Comics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6701202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-blog-posts","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/comics-and-dvp.jpg?fit=1120%2C840&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-Mu7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}