America Chavez - Blog Posts

Let's have a conversation.

Just because an ethnic group includes white people, it doesn't mean presenting said ethnic group as white is beyond critique. Presenting a diverse ethnic group as all-white or pale, or any specific way to cater to white supremacy (racism, colorism) is still whitewashing.

Homogenizing Roma as white caters to white supremacy.

Homogenizing black women as light-skinned caters to white supremacy.

Homogenizing Latines as white or light-skinned caters to white supremacy.

Lightening the skin tone or erasing the racial identity of canonically dark-skinned, brown, and/or black characters caters to white supremacy.

Homogenizing entire races and ethnic groups to look one way in the media created THIS:

Me: Damn, I can’t make any digital art rn

The drawings I’ve made during my random disappearance:

have you all noticed I have a favorite character? (please ignore the weird abs, these are old)

*after the Family has been separated for a few years*

Friday : So what have you been up to recently?

Pepper : Leading a revolution with Peter.

Harley : Good for you two! Me, I've joined the mob.

America : *nods* Oh, how cool! That's awesome!

Harley : I know! Anyway, have you heard from the others? Rhodey?

Christine : Happily living as a hermit in the woods. Tony?

Stephen : Wrongfully locked up in an asylum, which reminds me, we need to break him out later. Jarvis?

Peter : Cult leader.

Friday : Yeah, that sounds about right.

Kamala Khanfidential stats

(transcribed below the read more)

These are out of 5, i.e. from 0/5 to 5/5

Ghost-Spider

Strength: 3 Speed: 3 Fighting: 3 Tech: 2 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

Ms. Marvel

Strength: 4 Speed: 2 Fighting: 2 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 5 Invulnerability: 3

Squirrel Girl

Strength: 3 Speed: 4 Fighting: 3 Tech: 2 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

Patriot

Strength: 2 Speed: 3 Fighting: 4 Tech: 4 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

Quake

Strength: 2 Speed: 2 Fighting: 4 Tech: 4 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 5 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

America

Strength: 5 Speed: 4 Fighting: 4 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 4

Inferno

Strength: 2 Speed: 2 Fighting: 3 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 4 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 3

Captain Marvel

Strength: 5 Speed: 5 Fighting: 5 Tech: 2 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 4 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 4

Tippy-Toe

Strength: 1 Speed: 4 Fighting: 1 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 5 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 2

Lockjaw

Strength: 4 Speed: 3 Fighting: 3 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 2

Kamala Khanfidential stats

(transcribed below the read more)

These are out of 5, i.e. from 0/5 to 5/5

Ghost-Spider

Strength: 3 Speed: 3 Fighting: 3 Tech: 2 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

Ms. Marvel

Strength: 4 Speed: 2 Fighting: 2 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 5 Invulnerability: 3

Squirrel Girl

Strength: 3 Speed: 4 Fighting: 3 Tech: 2 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

Patriot

Strength: 2 Speed: 3 Fighting: 4 Tech: 4 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

Quake

Strength: 2 Speed: 2 Fighting: 4 Tech: 4 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 5 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 1

America

Strength: 5 Speed: 4 Fighting: 4 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 4

Inferno

Strength: 2 Speed: 2 Fighting: 3 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 3 Energy: 4 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 3

Captain Marvel

Strength: 5 Speed: 5 Fighting: 5 Tech: 2 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 4 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 4

Tippy-Toe

Strength: 1 Speed: 4 Fighting: 1 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 5 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 2

Lockjaw

Strength: 4 Speed: 3 Fighting: 3 Tech: 0 Intelligence: 4 Energy: 0 Morphing: 0 Invulnerability: 2

They wanted to give America a proper nationality instead of her being generically Latina. America is now Puerto Rican.

Oh cool! This is good to know.

Yeah this was a plot whole that I was wandering about myself. But this retcon is still kinda sad to me because we lost the lesbians planet and the beautiful lesbian goddesses and everything.

But I guess there are some good parts as well. I can understand that.

Please please someone help me figure this out.

I don't read a lot of marvel comics so I don't know what's happening there.

Why there are 2 different versions of America Chavez??

There is the 2017 run "America" where she has a grandmother and she's an alien she goes to her planet.

She has this whole experience.

But then in modern comics she's a child that was done experiments on??

WHY

Worst retcon I've ever seen.

Why did this happen? What happened?

Don't get me wrong I love her sister but what happened to the planet of lesbians? Why human?

Did the whole marvel universe been retconed in an event I'm not familiar with? Please someone help out here I'm lost.

I'm just trying to understand.