Kent’s feminist response to the COVID-19 crisis straddles visual arts and comics. She contemplates the intersections of the pandemic and social inequalities and expresses these through creative, critical imagery.
Miriam Kent
Miriam Kent has a PhD in Film Studies with a focus on Marvel superheroes and comic book adaptation. Her work focuses on the intersection of media communication, creativity and feminisms. She has taught a wide range of Film, Media and Gender Studies courses and has published on superhero media with a particular interest in gender and representation. Her monograph, Women in Marvel Films, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey