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CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Zaki Hasan

San Francisco, CA

Born and raised in Chicago -- with a decade-long detour in Saudi Arabia -- before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, Zaki Hasan is a professor of communication and media studies, and co-founder of Mr. Boy Productions, an LA-based independent film and video company. A lifelong pop culture buff, Zaki has been a media scholar and critic for more than fifteen years. He is co-author of Quirk Books' Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture, and his work has also been featured in Q-News, Illume, and The Huffington Post. Since 2004, his award-winning blog Zaki's Corner has been his one-stop forum for musings on news, media, politics, and pop culture, nominated for "Best Blog" and "Best Writer" by the 2010 Brass Crescent Awards , and included in the Top 35 Political Blogs of 2010 by BestBloggers.org.

Mommy Diaries

My vendetta against Disney

By Zaki Hasan, September 25, 2011

Part of becoming a parent is that your life ends up delving into areas that you didn't even realize existed when you were living unencumbered just a few years previously. One example of this is the personal hell I go through several times a day when attempting to change my two-year-old's pull-up diapers (one that's above-and-beyond the hell of, y'know, having to change diapers). (No comments)

G. Willow Wilson

American Muslim writers: An interview with G. Willow Wilson

By Zaki Hasan, September 16, 2011

As a Muslim woman working in comics, author G. Willow Wilson breathes rarified air in a traditionally male-dominated industry. First coming to prominence with the 2007 DC Comics graphic novel Cairo (illustrated by M.K. Perker), a fantasy story informed by the author's own time living in Egypt, she has continued to offer insights in her writing reflective of her unique lived experiences, whether via DC's Superman and Vixen, Mystic for Marvel, or her own 2008-2010 Vertigo series Air. However, Wilson's most profoundly personal work to date has surely been (No comments)