Killjoys: The Seven Deadly Sins

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Before the My Chemical Romance album of the same name, Gerard Way and Shaun Simon had been developing a very similar (but not altogether the same) series together for years. After abandoning the Conventional Weapons project and restructuring a new album from the ground up, Way realized he was telling his own vision of the Killjoys story. The first series of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is a sequel to the album, that wraps up the story of the Girl and the legacy of the Killjoys. This series, however, isn’t a prequel or origin story. It’s the original concept that predated the album. And it’s so, so good. IGN: You had two seasons to plan the ending [after season three, Killjoys was renewed for two final seasons]. Is that something you lobbied for?

Dowling, Amber (June 19, 2015). " 'Killjoys' Creator on Avoiding Love Triangles, 'Aliens' Influence". The Hollywood Reporter. Each actor brought crisp, committed delivery as well as depth and nuance to their roles, and what could have been just another space adventure story, over time, grew to contain surprising poignance and emotional weight. Thanks to the game, intelligent energy the cast brought to their work, and to the writers, crew and directors who wove quips, distinctive world-building and action seamlessly into a witty yet earnest story about rebellion and the desire to overthrow all kinds of oppression, Killjoys didn’t take long to become must-see TV for me. On September 21, 2020, Gerard Way announced a 6-issue sequel for the series titled The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem, which will explore the origins of the members. [11] On October 14, 2020, the first issue of the series was released.ML: It’s a combination. I don't think it's ever accidental. I do think there's this particular quirk to my personality, to my preferences and to my storytelling where I'm really interested in getting to know people. That's what I'm honestly in this for. I want to sit in a safe, confined space with a computer screen and just really get to know people I don't know in the real world. There's a lot of that adage, “Write what you know,” but I don't want to write just about what I know, and I don't want to write just about who I know. I want to explore how conventions and experiences I've had might be fielded by people who are stronger, weaker, smarter — what have you — than I am. Gladwell, M. 2009. Offensive play: How different are dogfighting and football? The New Yorker, 11 October 2009. Sara Ahmed’s profound reflection on the feminist killjoy is in fact a joyous experience for folks who understand the impact of the trivializing, displacement, and erasure of our anti-racist feminist commitments. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (not a "how to" but a "living as a feminist" handbook) connects anti-racist feminists across generations and teaches us that living a feminist life/being a feminist killjoy is a joyful and collective form of resistance that is capacious enough to include us all. A moving and brilliant book that belongs in our libraries, homes, classrooms, and social movements Chandra Talpade Mohanty Sara Ahmed's work has long been the touchstone for feminist scholars like me, so I am delighted that she has brought together her most powerful ideas from nearly a quarter century of publishing to the non-academic reader. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook is exactly what we need: a cogent, powerful, practical guide to understanding our world and changing it for the better with our every interaction, and every day. This is the book I shall be pressing into the hands of every woman I care about for years to come. An absolute must read! Professor Sunny Singh

Oates, T.P. 2017. Football and manliness: An unauthorized feminist account of the NFL. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Overall, it’s clear that Way put a lot of work into this, possibly more pacing planning than with 2013 Killjoys, but I’ll forever be biased towards Danger Days’ Mad Max style world, and everything fans have done with it.Latour, B. 2004. Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern. Critical Inquiry 30 (2): 225–248.

Not all science or medicine has such lay-friendly graphics. Often the patterns that health researchers find are in subtle biomarkers that translate into graphs and small but statistically significant percentages. Those wishing to persuade funders, politicians, and the public that some pattern represents a serious health concern are left with the tenuous task of translation. They may, for example, have a many-stepped high-tech procedure to coax visible difference from blood, or genetic tendencies that yields small statistical margins of difference. Their audience inevitably has a short attention span and little training in biology. Instead, CTE was blessed with a signifier that—while hidden for over a century—is now amenable to a revelatory visual politics. The stain is obvious, yes, but how does it come to equal a tidy constellation of symptoms in lives that are invariable messy? How exactly are we contemporary subjects able to see, in those splotches, memory-loss, confusion, anxiety, depression and violent behaviours? And what happens when we do? Vaillancourt et al. ( 2013) look specifically at physical manifestations of peer victimization (bullying). They confirm the earlier findings regarding HPA axis dysregulation—specifically a pattern to under-produce the hormone cortisol—in adults who were bullied as children. They conclude that “the experience of being bullied by peers becomes biologically embedded in the physiology of the developing person, which in turn modifies his or her health and, perhaps, learning trajectory.” A review article by R. J. Blair ( 2019), published in the journal Aggression and Violent Behaviour, gathers up current thinking about the cognitive neuroscience that underpins violent actions. Again, violence committed within sport is given a free pass by omission. Blair reports that there is significant evidence that “at least some violent individuals show impairment in processing the emotional expressions of others generally and perhaps distress cues in particular” (p. 159). Furthermore, “amygdala and or insula responses to the distress of other individuals, particularly their fear, is reduced in some violent individuals” (p. 159). It is easy to imagine that decreased sensitivity to the fear or pain of others is an asset in competition, as in war, and that it might garner the attention of a talent scout, and be actively cultivated in the brains and bodies of players. When anti-social behaviour (hurting someone) is applauded in some contexts (the field), and ostensibly abhorred in others (the bar or the bedroom), it may be asking too much of fleshy, material, embodied processes to distinguish the difference, in some athletes, at least. Ahmed, S. 2010. Feminist Killjoys and other Willful Subjects. The Scholar and Feminist Online 8: 3.Krista Allain, Igor Avdyushin, Jason Gougeon, Ran Long Wen, Ben Mossman, Yuhay-Ray Ng, Chris Ross, Kyle Sim, Somboun Souannhaphanh, Edward J. Taylor IV Fans never saw enforcers curled up in a ball on the hotel room floor. They didn’t see the food left on the plate during the pre-game meal. They didn’t know that the enforcer tried to take his mind off of the fight with an afternoon movie or a long walk, and later had no idea what he had seen or where he had been. Against the sun we raise our broken fists and give thanks to the dead, for we may never get another chance to say goodbye." Brown and red splotches. All over the place. Large accumulations of tau proteins. Tau was kind of like sludge, clogging up the works, killing cells in regions responsible for mood, emotions, and executive functioning. In this fervent manifesto, Ahmed brings impressive clarity to a field of study often opaque in the hands of others. Admirers of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts should take note

ML: Yeah, it was an important moment to me. A lot of what I write ends up [being about] consent and agency. Those issues are really important to me and to my characters, so we would come at that from different vantage points throughout the season. But you have this one lead character that you're taking that journey with — Dutch. Oreskes, N., and E.M. Conway. 2011. Merchants of doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing. It was a nice and, I think, necessary moment to show myself, to show Dutch, to show to the audience that she really had come full circle. She felt very empowered. She felt strong, she felt unafraid of the Lady and the situation that she's in now. And she didn't feel that she had to be forced to make the kind of moves that she would have made as an assassin. The Dutch that [we see at the end] is as close as we can get to who Dutch would have been if she hadn't been manipulated so much all her life. And it was a pleasure to meet that Dutch by the end.The Feminist Killjoy Handbook is full of pithy observations, inversions, and diagnoses … greatly empowering AAG Review of Books It was really wonderful that they ended up being so fabulous to work with and [liked] working with each other. Like, Luke is so damn funny. And we didn't know that at first. But he just kept nailing the random occasional [comic] line we gave him. That was such a blessing, because we thought, "Oh, here's a new insight into what makes D’avin so lovable." He's self-aware. He's just the tiniest bit goofy, especially for a big, handsome man. He's really loving, and kind of soft. He's a bit vulnerable in ways that Dutch can see — in a good way. That’s my favorite part about writing television versus writing a movie or writing a novel — you have time to extract from these actors all these things that they can do. Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada of the Standing Committee on Health. 2019. Evidence. Meeting 6, February 20, 2019. 42nd Parliament, 2nd Session. https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/SCSC/meeting-6/evidence.