SK12 Panel: Who Gets to Be a SuperHero?

Hello Skepticoners!

We’re happy to announce a panel for this year’s virtual event. Introducing: Who Gets to Be a SuperHero?

About the panel:

“The whole point of a superhero is that they’re “super”. They are more than the rest of us somehow. Stronger, faster, better equipped, braver. What has that meant for who gets to be a superhero, and which writers and characters have challenged the limits of our imaginations?”

And our panelists:

Sigrid Ellis

Sigrid Ellis is co-editor of the Hugo-nominated Queers Dig Time Lords and Chicks Dig Comics anthologies. She edits the best-selling Pretty Deadly from Image Comics. She is the flash-fiction editor of Queers Destroy Science Fiction, from Lightspeed Press. She edited the Hugo-nominated Apex Magazine for 2014. She lives with her partner, their two homeschooled children, her partner’s boyfriend, and a host of vertebrate and invertebrate pets in Saint Paul, MN.

Lathan Murrell

Lathan likes science, history, comics, anime, B movies, martial arts, and music. Most of his time is spent studying or enjoying one of these things.

Alix Jules

Alix is a secular activist in the Dallas – Ft. Worth area commonly involved in issues and topics regarding the role of diversity in the atheist community as well as atheism in diverse communities.
He’s the chair of the Dallas – Fort Worth Coalition of Reason’s Diversity Council, Organizer for Black Nonbelievers of Dallas, and is a founding member of the largest family-based secular humanist organization in Texas, the Fellowship of Freethought. Alix has been featured in Ebony magazine, “One Man’s Journey into Atheism,” Godless – the documentary, ia a regular co-host on Dogma Debate (he’s the funny one), and is a contributing writer on Patheos, The Orbit, and other outlets where he provides social commentary and critique on race, religion, politics, and pizza.

Join us on Saturday, August 15th at 1pm CST for this amazing panel! RSVP to the Facebook event here — we’ll put the link you need in the description!

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