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  We Are Lady Parts - review This is long overdue BUT here is my review of We Are Lady Parts, season 1! TL;DR: It's great, watch it now! It was announced back in November '21 that We Are Lady Parts will return for a season 2, which was great to hear. It's well deserved. What is We Are Lady Parts? We Are Lady Parts is a British sitcom series from Channel 4 ( watch trailer here ) that debuted in May '21, written and directed by Nida Manzoor .  The series follows an unsigned British punk rock band consisting entirely of Muslim women. In the US it is distributed by Peacock. If you're in the UK you can watch it on Freeview streaming, Channel 4. It should be noted that We Are Lady Parts has had rave reviews across the board.  My peers who watched it before me also gave it great reviews.  What delayed me in watching was my concern that a show about a punk rock band would simply be like many mainstream (cough, white, cough) shows or movies before it, and feel...

  Image description: Supervillains clockwise from top left, Iron Man 1 (2008), The Boys TV (2020),  Batman vs. Superman Dawn of Justice (2016), and  Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). Please note the frequent use of Yellow Filter. Muslim Supervillains: A tired stereotype in the superhero genre. - I realised I haven't yet written about British Muslim actor, activist and all round great person, Riz Ahmed , appearing in a superhero movie. Of course as soon as I thought about his character in Venom (2018), I remembered that Ahmed is playing a supervillain, a bad guy; which is a typecast all too common for Muslim and MENA actors. So I decided to list all the times Muslim and Muslim background actors (also referred to as SWANA and/or MENA, which stands for South West Asia and North Africa, and Middle East and North Africa) have been given the role of 'supervillain' in live action superhero movies. Spoiler: it's a lot.  It's also more times than any Muslim actors have appeared...

  MENA background characters in superhero media: Who did it better, Disney Plus or Netflix? Surprising no one, it wasn't Disney; even the bog standard MENA stereotype is the most/only instance Disney has shown MENA in the MCU since Iron Man 1, thirteen years ago. Let's compare the nameless MENA point by point. Disney first: Falcon and Winter Soldier (2021) Marvel Studios on Disney Plus, minus points for: Racist yellow filter Meaningless dialogue that add nothing to the MENA characters Praising American military = minus 3 points to FATWS/Disney (I could list more but let's stick with the main issues)  Next up,  Netflix: Jupiter's Legacy (2021) Millarworld on Netflix,  points added for: No racist yellow filter used Meaningful discussion is had Character is shown in additional background scenes of the episode = plus 3 points to Jupiter's Legacy/Netflix As far as crumbs go toward any MENA rep, Netflix's Jupiter's Legacy won thi...