Geek Culture Club talks gender stereotypes in comics

Joseph Cardenas/Staff Writer

Florida International University’s Geek Culture Club will be hosting another “Take Back The Night” event this Thursday, titled “The Sex Issue”. It will be a forum held in GC140 at 2 p.m. and will explore gendered stereotypes in comics, especially to female superheroes.

Laura Pomar, marketing director of the club, spoke about the event including topics on “the evolution [of sex] throughout the history of comics” and how women have been portrayed over the years. It will also address topics about sexual assault portrayed in comics. “We’ll be covering iconic heroines; Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Jessica Jones.”

The event is being led by Sam Pritchard Torres, club representative for the Council for Student Organization. “He’s the one presenting topics because he, himself, is a feminist. He creates his own comics. He feels really strongly about this,” said Pomar.

The forum is meant to be a discussion on how women in comics were movements to empower women. Equally, comic tropes will be brought up, citing one discussion will be about female characters “being refrigerators” – a reference to female characters used as plot devices for male heroes.

More information on this event can be gathered by visiting the Geek Culture Club on their Facebook page. Furthermore you can look into the club itself on FIU’s Orgsync.