# Erasurehead **URL:** \ **Category:** Queer Comics Podcast\ **Created:** [June 21, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.geektherapy.org/t/erasurehead/1021 "2019-06-21T22:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![QueerComicsPodcast](https://forum.geektherapy.org/user_avatar/forum.geektherapy.org/queercomicspodcast/32/210_2.png) [@QueerComicsPodcast](https://forum.geektherapy.org/u/QueerComicsPodcast)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.geektherapy.org/t/erasurehead/1021/1 "2019-06-21T22:16:57Z")
Originally published at: [Erasurehead](https://queercomics.geektherapy.com/2019/06/21/erasurehead/) Welcome to the seventh episode of the Queer Comics Podcast! Today [Nina Kester](https://twitter.com/NinaKester) and [Jessica Vazquez](https://twitter.com/Daburninator22) talk about the lack of queer superheros in major films, primarily focusing on the Marvel cinematic universe and a few missed opportunities to have queer representation before Avengers: Endgame. _(recorded on June 4th 2019)._ Make sure to follow QCP on twitter [@QueerComicsPod](https://twitter.com/QueerComicsPod) and Instagram [@queer\_comics\_podcast ](https://www.instagram.com/queer_comics_podcast/?hl=en). This podcast features original music by Tyler Francis, you can checkout more of his work on his [bandcamp page](https://fatmusic.bandcamp.com/) and follow him on Instagram [@Tylerirl\_](https://www.instagram.com/tylerirl_/) Let us know in the GT forums how you feel about queer representation in superhero movies and let us know which queer hero you think the MCU/DCU should add to their cinematic roster. ![](upload://gWfvlBMaysFEJ1eQCt7NWMKEamr.png) ## **RECOMMENDED READING** ![|500x768](upload://dWtbbKzaoV6k0uyy2bzdYZ5nz5p.jpeg)[World of Wakanda complete volume](https://www.amazon.com/Black-Panther-Wakanda-Ta-Nehisi-Coates/dp/130290650X) ## **RECOMMENDED ARTICLES** - [Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie Is Marvel’s First Bisexual Character and More Gay Superhero News](https://www.autostraddle.com/pop-culture-character-tessa-thompsons-valkyrie-is-the-first-bisexual-character-in-the-sprawling-marvel-cinematic-universe-399020/) by Heather Hogan - [BLACK PANTHER: WORLD OF WAKANDA CANCELLED: I’M THE REASON SUPERHERO COMICS ARE STRUGGLING](https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/black-panther-world-wakanda-cancelled-im-reason-superhero-comics-are-struggling) by Swapna Krishna - [Thor: Ragnarok ultimately cut the one scene that confirmed Valkyrie’s bisexuality](https://www.avclub.com/thor-ragnarok-ultimately-cut-the-one-scene-that-confir-1820047758) by Danette Chavez - [How Tessa Thompson Went From Indie Actor to ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Badass](https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/how-tessa-thompson-went-from-indie-actor-to-thor-ragnarok-badass-116635/) by Amy Nicholson - [Taika Waititi Cut a ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Scene That Made Valkyrie’s Bisexuality Explicit](http://collider.com/thor-ragnarok-valkyrie-bisexual-scene-cut-taika-waititi/) by Adam Chitwood - [Did You Catch Valkyrie’s Female Lover In THOR: RAGNAROK?](https://nerdist.com/article/thor-ragnarok-valkyrie-female-lover-bisexual/) by Donna Dickens - [‘Black Panther’ Actor Says Her Character’s Queer Flirtation Scene Was Deleted](https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/black-panther-queer-flirtation-scene-florence-kasumba-1201929683/) by Jenna Marotta - [I Love “Black Panther” with All My Heart, and I Deserve to See My Queer Self in It Too](https://www.autostraddle.com/i-loved-black-panther-with-all-my-heart-and-i-deserve-to-see-my-queer-self-in-it-too-411779/) by Carmen Phillips - [It’s True: Marvel Fails At Queer Representation, Even In Black Panther](https://www.essence.com/culture/black-panther-lgbtq-deleted-scene-ayo-okoye/) by Michael Arceneaux - [‘BLACK PANTHER’ SCREENWRITER JOE ROBERT COLE ADDRESSES RUMORS OF A DELETED GAY ROMANCE](https://screencrush.com/black-panther-gay-characters-ayo-okoye-scene/)by E. 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