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February 3, 2023 50 mins

On the second episode of Shireside Chats, Fandom Forward co-president and host Sabrina Cartan invites writers Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan to geek out about Marvel Comics and share how their favorite superhero stories have helped them become human rights activists and educators. Alan and Gan discuss 1/6, their 4-part graphic novel that answers the chilling question: What would America look like if the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021 had been successful? In reimagining 1/6 through speculative fiction, Alan and Gan illustrates how close the U.S. came to authoritarian rule, while offering hope and a path to preserving democracy.


Both avid Marvel fans, Alan and Gan describe how they fell in love with comic books and what inspired them to produce indie comics together, plus what Marvel has meant to them after becoming mainstream through Disney's acquisition and movie adaptations. Sabrina, Alan, and Gan also talk about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and what it means for superhero movies to attract Oscar® Buzz.


Alan Jenkins is a writer, Harvard Law School professor, and human rights advocate. He teaches courses on racial justice, strategic communications, and Supreme Court jurisprudence and is a frequent commentator in broadcast and print media. Jenkins’s previous positions include President and Co-Founder of the social justice communication lab The Opportunity Agenda, Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Follow him on Twitter at @Opportunity1.


Gan Golan is an activist, illustrator and New York Times bestselling author who has been working for more than 3 decades as a grassroots organizer within social movements for racial and economic justice. He is the co-author of the bestselling children's book parodies Goodnight Bush and Goodnight Trump, and the critically-acclaimed graphic novel The Adventures of Unemployed Man, which played a role in the Occupy Wall St. movement. He was a lead designer of The People’s Climate March and a co-founder of The Climate Clock. Follow him on Instagram at @gangolan.


To order your copy of 1/6 and take action to preserve democracy, visit:

http://onesixcomics.com/


A full transcript of the episode can be accessed here.


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