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This year’s Oscars are certainly going to be remembered for years to come. Besides the controversy and disaster of the end, the award ceremony also saw new winners. We link this to the Saudi Arabia having its first comic convention which allowed genders to intermingle. This leads us to discuss how have comic books and nerd subculture has pushed society in progressive ways. We connect representations of LGBTQ and people of culture in comic books to civil rights movements and gay liberation. We talk about cultural representation and how it shifts society.
