With Marvel's "America Chavez," Gabby Rivera wrote a new kind of
superhero -- one who can punch portals into other dimensions while also
embracing her gentle, goofy, soft side. In a funny, personal talk,
Rivera shares how her own childhood as a queer Puerto Rican in the Bronx
informed this new narrative -- and shows images from the comic book
that reveal what happens when a superhero embraces her humanity. As she
says: "That myth of having to go it alone and be tough is not serving
us."
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