Ms. Marvel, the Intersectional X-Men, and the War on Terror

A Conversation Between Spencer Ackerman and Saladin Ahmed

Doing something a little different for Copper Bottle’s first subscriber-only post!

The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is approaching and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is in the news. As a Muslim American who was living in NYC on 9/11 I’m being hit by some visceral memories. Some of those memories have to do with demonization in the press. A lot of p…