Posted on Jun 18, 2022
'Ms. Marvel' treats being Muslim as ordinary — and that makes it extraordinary
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"I am a huge Marvel fan and have cheered wholeheartedly that it finally added more superheroes from underrepresented backgrounds.
I was first in line at Black Panther, I held a Shang-Chi watch party, I shared the viral pictures of Kumail Nanjiani getting ready for Eternals. But I had not even thought to dream of a Pakistani Muslim superhero"
"I am a huge Marvel fan and have cheered wholeheartedly that it finally added more superheroes from underrepresented backgrounds.
I was first in line at Black Panther, I held a Shang-Chi watch party, I shared the viral pictures of Kumail Nanjiani getting ready for Eternals. But I had not even thought to dream of a Pakistani Muslim superhero"
'Ms. Marvel' treats being Muslim as ordinary — and that makes it extraordinary
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My daughter and I watched the wedding episode today, that dance was off the hook
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..."That's what G. Willow Wilson set out to do when she set out to remake Ms. Marvel as a Pakistani-American teen in the comic book.
"I spent a lot of time talking to colleagues and friends of mine who have grown up with those hyphenated identities, who come from immigrant backgrounds — Arab or Pakistani, South Asian, African — and sort asking them, what was it like?" she told NPR in interview in 2015.
Wilson, a Muslim herself, said she dreamed up the character because she wanted to create a body of work that children of various ethnic groups could turn to "to see that they are not alone."
As my daughter sat on the couch watching the show with me, she grinned throughout and said — over and over again — how the family on the screen was "just like us."
She got to watch a brown girl superhero on screen who shares her religion — and she saw herself.
Anika Steffen is the Chief Employment Counsel for NPR. A Pakistani-American Muslim, she grew up in Michigan and now lives in the DC-area with her 11 year-old daughter."
..."That's what G. Willow Wilson set out to do when she set out to remake Ms. Marvel as a Pakistani-American teen in the comic book.
"I spent a lot of time talking to colleagues and friends of mine who have grown up with those hyphenated identities, who come from immigrant backgrounds — Arab or Pakistani, South Asian, African — and sort asking them, what was it like?" she told NPR in interview in 2015.
Wilson, a Muslim herself, said she dreamed up the character because she wanted to create a body of work that children of various ethnic groups could turn to "to see that they are not alone."
As my daughter sat on the couch watching the show with me, she grinned throughout and said — over and over again — how the family on the screen was "just like us."
She got to watch a brown girl superhero on screen who shares her religion — and she saw herself.
Anika Steffen is the Chief Employment Counsel for NPR. A Pakistani-American Muslim, she grew up in Michigan and now lives in the DC-area with her 11 year-old daughter."
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