The Break

Break in Service / But Not in Struggle

Break in Service / But Not in Struggle

Jul 16 • 

Ellen Kirkpatrick

March 2024

2025 &c.

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

Mar 14, 2024 • 

Ellen Kirkpatrick

December 2023

Moving Days

death is not always the end

Dec 15, 2023 • 

Ellen Kirkpatrick

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October 2023

Scrolling Through the Pain of Others:

Losing Sight of the Firebrand Art of Seeing

Oct 12, 2023 • 

Ellen Kirkpatrick

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

Part Two: Zebediah Killgrave, Master Storyteller ("Alias")

Oct 4, 2023 • 

Ellen Kirkpatrick

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September 2023

*** PUBLICATION KLAXON ***

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

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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

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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

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“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

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March 2023

Academia & Me

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