{"id":557,"date":"2016-03-29T17:37:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/?p=557"},"modified":"2016-03-29T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:34:49","slug":"buffy-the-vampire-slayer-and-lgbtq-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/03\/29\/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-and-lgbtq-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffy the Vampire Slayer and LGBTQ Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/03\/tumblr_n605rvdHlw1tbnb01o1_5001.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-563\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/files\/2016\/03\/tumblr_n605rvdHlw1tbnb01o1_5001.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n605rvdHlw1tbnb01o1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>I LOVE Buffy the Vampire Slayer (evident by the fact that I binged all seven seasons over the summer). Also, Dr Maurantonio and I discussed how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffy_studies\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>\u00a0is a thing in the academic field.\u00a0That said, my favorite character quickly became Willow Rosenberg. (It&#8217;s been almost 20 years since the show debuted, but&#8230;spoiler warning) Willow starts off as the quirky friend\/sidekick to the show&#8217;s protagonist, Buffy. However, over the seven season run Willow&#8217;s character is developed and in season four, after previously having love interest in two male characters, her sexuality is explored during her time in college. I&#8217;ll let the attached link further explore the significance of how her coming out and sexuality are represented in the show, which was a mainstream staple in the late 90s\/ early 00s. But, I think this is a nice point of departure to analyze how similar scenes play out in popular media today. (Also, I love Willow but I was initially on the fence about the openly lesbian character being a witch. However, I think it&#8217;s a truly beautiful narrative when the larger Buffy context is considered)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qipc2014.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/24\/under-her-spell-a-queer-analysis-of-buffy-the-vampire-slayer\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYU&#8217;s Professor Portwood-Stacer&#8217;s Queer Analysis of Buffy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I LOVE Buffy the Vampire Slayer (evident by the fact that I binged all seven seasons over the summer). Also, Dr Maurantonio and I discussed how this\u00a0is a thing in the academic field.\u00a0That said, my favorite character quickly became Willow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/03\/29\/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-and-lgbtq-representation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}