Micro Mutant Postcard #61

by Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri

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Peanut butter (sand)witch. Garlic bread vampire. Slip stitch Frankenstein’s monster. Steak tartare zombie. Wheelchair ramp mummy. We all know the Phantom has always been Crip. Universally panned, seared, and fried. Torn and eaten by Werewolf by Night; I am a Maddest Invisible Marvel indeed.

Rachael is a long-time employee at Syracuse University. She is also co-creator (with Diane R. Wiener) of “Cripping” the Comic Con, the first of its kind interdisciplinary and international symposium on disability and popular culture, previously held at SU. At conferences and as a guest lecturer, she has for many years presented on the X-Men comic books, popular culture, and disability rights and identities. Other entries in this project have been published in Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature.