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When Ideals Meet Reality: The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

  • Amaris Feland Ketcham and Nora Hickey
  • January 27, 2021
You want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
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What to Read When You Want Fire and Fury

  • The Rumpus
  • January 19, 2018
Rumpus editors share a list of books by writers of color and women that bring fire, fury, and sometimes, both.
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What to Read When You Are a Girl in This Garbage-Fire World

  • Kendra Fortmeyer and Gretchen Alice
  • July 7, 2017
Our voices are our weapons, and in these books, young women speak, shout, and scream the truths that you are not alone, you are not forgotten, and you are not done fighting.
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Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion

  • Amy Fusselman
  • April 11, 2016
Amy Fusselman gathers four writer-artists working in the poetry comics genre to discuss the emerging form.
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We Shall Not Ban Comics in English Class!

  • Victor Luo
  • June 18, 2015
Recently, Tara Shultz, a college student at Crafton Hills College, expressed her shock and disgust at the “pornographic and violent” content in the selection of graphic novels (Sandman by Neil…
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Fresh Comics #1: An Iranian Metamorphosis

  • Monica Johnson
  • April 21, 2015
The question that lingers even after reading the book is about the use of symbolism in the cartoon and who has the final say—the creator or the readers?
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