Superhero Rundown

Ispiri takes a look at the Swordsman trilogy and the allegory that Invincible Asia represents: transgender people are magical.

Xiaoao Jianghu: • SwordMan 2 東方不敗 OST

Music by D. Fatman: https://fattyfunk.bandcamp.com/

Bibliography:
“Brandon Goes to Hollywood: ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and the Transgender Body in Film” by Melissa Rigney
“Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Dolls” by Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao
“Heroes, Villains, and Fools, as Agents of Social Control” by Orrin E. Klapp
“How I Became What I Am” by Karla Adriana Martins Bessa
“Trans on Screen” by Helen Hok-Sze Leung
“Transgender Without Organs? Mobilizing a Geo-Affective Theory of Gender Modification” by Lucas Cassidy Crawford
“Transgender: Female Hermaphrodites and Male Androgynes” by Fujimoto Yukari, Linda Flores, Kazumi Nagaike, and Sharalyn Orbaugh
“Transsexual Women and Feminist Thought: Toward New Understanding and New Politics” by Raewyn Connell
“Undoing Theory: ‘The Transgender Question’ and Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory” by Viviane Namaste
“Filmart Flashback: 1992’s Swordsman II Bested Original with Mix of History, Spirituality — and Bloodshed” by Elizabeth Kerr
“Brigitte Lin: Stardom, Queering, Gender, and Iconicity” by Colette Balmain
“Jet Li and Brigitte Lin Star in Martial Arts Romance Epic Swordsman II (1992)” by Richard James Havis