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ISSN 1546-9212
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Slayage: The International Journal of  Buffy+  20.1 [55], Winter/Spring 2022
Rhonda V. Wilcox, Editor  |  David Lavery, Founding Editor  |  Ananya Mukherjea, Co-Editor   |   Janet Brennan Croft, Associate  Editor and  Archivist   |   Deborah Overstreet, Assistant Editor   |   Renée-Marie Bouquier-Moulin, Copy Editor for French | 
"You Can't Beat Evil by Doing Evil":  Buffy, Discursive Challenges, and Nuclear Weapons
Lee-Anne Broadhead (Cape Breton University, Canada)

On the Transformation of Humans into Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Viral Disease Model
Julian Freedland (University of Washington) and Kelvin Young (Cross Cancer Institute, Canada)

A Slayer Slays and a Watcher Mentors:  A Comparison of Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Mentor from Homer's The Odyssey
Darren Lester  (Independent Scholar)

Choc des générations:  l'éducation parentale problématique de Joyce Summers et Rupert Giles
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Cynthia Bowers (Kennesaw State University) translated by Malaurie Prévost

From ASB+ Officers:
"I Want to Help Because..."
James Rocha
 (California State University, Fresno)

Going to Work
Lewis Call (California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo)

Your Words, Your Work, Our Future
Lynne Edwards (Ursinus College, Annenburg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania)

Balancing Two Worlds
Heather M. Porter (Independent Scholar)

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Slayage: The International Journal of  Buffy+  20.2 [56]
Special 20th Anniversary Issue on Firefly
Guest Edited by Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter

Rhonda V. Wilcox, Editor  |  David Lavery, Founding Editor  |  Ananya Mukherjea, Co-Editor   |   Janet Brennan Croft, Associate  Editor and  Archivist   |   Deborah Overstreet, Assistant Editor   |   Malaurie Prévost, Translator for French  |  Renée-Marie Bouquier-Moulin, Copy Editor for French | ​
Introduction:  You Can’t Take Firefly from Me: Twenty Years Later and Still Missed
Sherry Ginn and Heather M. Porter
 
The Serenity Logo:  Otherness and Inauthenticity
Eric Benson
 
Conquering Evil with Empathy:  River Tam’s Radical Empathy in Firefly and Serenity
Jillian Coleman
 
Desperados:  Crypto-Mexicans and Firefly’s Mutation of the Western
Agnes B. Curry and Josef Velazquez
 
“Let’s see what’s in there”: Unlocking the Containers of Firefly and Serenity
Cynthea Masson
 
«On ne dit pas ‘Indien’»: ou le paradoxe des Ravageurs
Translation, by Malaurie Prévost, of Agnes B. Curry’s 2008 essay:
 
Slayage 9 Conference Report
Meaghan Allen, Agnes B. Curry, Ananya Mukherjea, and Savannah Richardson

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