Abstract
“Goldie Vance,” the young-adult comic series about the adventures of a 16-year-old queer, Black feminist who dreams of being a detective, redeploys genre tropes and historical contexts from its Civil Rights and Cold War era setting to propose a historically plausible, self-possessed and self-determined, intersectional queer girl detective. Detection is an overdetermined trope in “Goldie Vance”; Larson and Williams’s hero uses it to solve mysteries and her stories play up the fun that queerness affords us to detect our world’s sexual coding and to crack it. Vance’s queer resilience gives her special aptitudes to solve crimes and produces a compelling distinctness about her, Black and fine and gay, for the next generation of young queer readers to admire and emulate.
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