Archive - The Break

Li'l update: reveries of a lush year in a troubled land

Mar 14, 2024 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

December 2023

death is not always the end

Dec 15, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

October 2023

September 2023

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Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds

Sep 4, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

August 2023

Stories That Snatch Us Up: A Tale of Two Storytellers and Reflections on the Paradox of Story

Part One: Survivor Storytelling and Jessica Jones ("Alias")

Aug 14, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

June 2023

Cosplay, Academia, and Me—Some Thoughts, and a Note on the Future

Here, I talk about the increasing corporatisation of academia and its wide-ranging impact on knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation, as…

Jun 21, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

May 2023

George Floyd and the Urgent Matter of Changing the World

The Radical Power of Bystander Footage, Monument Activism, and Effective Movement Building

May 26, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

“You need to learn to see yourself through the Fathers’ eyes”

Feminism, Representation, and the Dystopian Space of Bitch Planet

May 19, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

March 2023

Introducing a Scholarly Archive and Future Plans

Mar 3, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

Cosplay: An Introductory Essay

from Keywords for Comics Studies (NYU Press, 2021)

Mar 3, 2023 •

Ellen Kirkpatrick

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