Resum
In this article, I look at how comics aimed at young readers can serve to
disrupt normative notions, gendered binaries, and fixed designations through featuring,
or focusing on, queer girlhoods. In doing so I consider two contemporary
series, Ms. Marvel and Lumberjanes. I contextualize these titles against aspects of
the publishing of comics, before analyzing some of the narratives and characters
in the texts in relation to queer girlhoods. I conclude that the comics offer different
approaches and, therefore, differentiated reading experiences for the young readers
who engage with them, but that they also form part of a wider grouping of titles
that offer diverse images of young people embracing affiliations going beyond
family and nation.