スミソニアン博物館のインスタグラム(smithsonian) - 9月29日 02時56分

As a teen superhero, America Chavez, also known as Ms. America, both starts college at the fictional Sotomayor University and defeats an interdimensional monster in this 2017 comic, now in the collection of our @国立アメリカ歴史博物館.

Novelist Gabby Rivera poured her own experiences growing up as a queer Puerto Rican in the Bronx into the 2017 comic. She described Chavez this way in a TED Talk: “She's tough, Latina, and she's so strong that she can punch portals into other dimensions.” Growing up without her mother from a young age, Chavez has to fend for herself. But Rivera wanted to give Chavez "permission to be soft," to embrace self-healing and find strength in her ancestry.

Chavez, Marvel’s first Latina LGBTQ+ superhero with her own series, made her live-action film debut in "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," (2022) where she dodges demons and attempts to evade the Scarlet Witch.

Chavez is the second character Marvel to be known as “Ms. America.” The first one appeared in 1943 and fought America’s enemies during World War II.

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