WisCon 42 Panel Writeups: "Positive Representations of Masculinity"

[justira]

When I was at Wiscon 42 I took over 13,000 words of notes. That is not a typo. Thirteen thousand. And since I took so many notes, I thought I would write up the panels I attended as well as the four panels I was actually on. Let's go!

I attended:

• Redemption And Revenge: Antiheroines And Villainesses Taking Control (panel description | writeup)
• Where The F Is All The F/F In Media? (panel description | writeup — soon!)
• "Get Out" and Black Horror (panel description | writeup)
• Contextual Queerness In Science Fiction And Fantasy (panel description | writeup — soon!)
• Best Superpowers For Banging: 2 Super 2 Banging (panel description | writeup — soon!)
• Positive Representations of Masculinity (panel description | writeup)
• Future Of Fiction Formats (panel description | writeup — soon!)

I was a panelist on:

• The Good Place: Holy Forking Shirtballs (panel description | writeup — soon!)
• Sex and the Sim City: Romance and Sex in Video Games (panel description | writeup — soon!)
• Beyond S/He (panel description | writeup — soon!)
• Exploring the Platonic (panel description | writeup — soon!)

This was one of the panels where I kept track of speakers, but unless something is in quotation marks everything here is paraphrased/summarized. When I attribute lines to the audience, they may be combinations of different speakers — I didn't keep explicit notes on that aspect. All errors and misrepresentations are my own. For this writeup, I'm going to intersperse my own post-facto commentary between blocks of the panelists' discussion.

Positive Representations Of Masculinity
The animated TV show Steven Universe and the blacksmithing reality game show Forged in Fire present and celebrate visions of masculinity that emphasize skill, artistry, resourcefulness, calm, and taking care of others. What other recent works explore masculinity in ways that inspire us?
Panelists: M: Jim Leinweber. Seth Frost, Charles Payseur, Nicasio Reed, Samuel Steinbock-Pratt, Brontë Christopher Wieland
#PositiveMasculinity

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( WisCon 42: 'Positive Representations of Masculinity' )

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Here's a roundup of works mentioned during the panel:

• Adventure Time
• American Ninja Warrior
• Black Lightning
• Black Panther
• Bob's Burgers
• Brooklyn 99
• Check, Please!
• Cool Runnings
• Elementary
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Forged in Fire

• Great British Bake Off
• My Cat from Hell
• Queer Eye
• So You Think You Can Dance?
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Stargate
• Steven Universe
• Ultimate Beastmaster
• Veronica Mars

Also mentioned:

• Carl Sagan
• Hockey
• Jack O'Neill
• Jean-Luc Picard
• Luke Cage
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• Steve Rogers

And here are some tweets from the hashtag:

• @mycrazyhair livetweeted this panel extensively, starting here
• @tigerpetals tweeted a lot of the highlights starting here
• @youripides also did a great livetweet, and she was really excited about hockey, and also suggested some more shows
• My Little Pony also majority female
• Suggesting Tim Gunn as a positive masculine model
• The tweet I mentioned before linking to a video on Steven Universe
• Different toxic masculinities in Dr. Horrible

Stay tuned for more panel writeups!