Elaine Castillo’s writing is so intelligent with a vibrating core of biting humor throughout, I cannot help but feel in awe. 

While some essays are quite dense with media, literature, and pop culture I’m not familiar with, what I do know is this book has definitely inspired me to be a better reader. Not only that but to meet our world with a more curious, decolonized lens that goes beyond “positive representation” and all the other neoliberal nonsense corporations like Marvel try to spoonfeed to us as progressive movements.

I will be thinking about this book and Castillo’s voice for a long time, and if it ever begins to fade, I know I’ll be eager to revisit it.