American - Writer | August 31, 1982 -
Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
G. Willow Wilson
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When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.
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I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
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