She-Hulk Stunt Woman Comes Out Swinging For Trans Women

What Malia Arrayah taught me about how to go full HULK SMASH!!! on transphobia

Graphic by Stephenie, elements from She-Hulk (Marvel/Disney), Malia Arrayah’s Instaram, and Tatiana’s Maslaney’s sweatshirt in “I’m a Hulk | Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” (Marvel Entertainment)

She-Hulk SMASH!! Transphobia

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Y’all remember She-Hulk?

How about what the on-set reference person behind her green-skinned incarnation said about trans women?

But wait, wait, wait…surely you also remember that time She-Hulk was played by a man?

Note: a previous version of this article referred to Malia as a stunt person; the appropriate term for her role on She-Hulk is “on-set reference person”

Role models come in all shades of green

Jennifer Walters as the She-Hulk during her debut in The Savage She-Hulk #1 (November 1979). Art by John Buscema.

We are Giant Women and girls and we have purposes as large as our bodies and we cannot be stopped by bullies, angry, envious people…