Spotlight: Miss Diabetes

My name is Janina and I create comics about living with Type 1 Diabetes. My comics have been featured on Brut America, The Mighty, and two of them have been shared by the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2019. I started an Instagram account and website called Miss Diabetes to document my life with Type 1 diabetes in 2016, because my diabetes nurse told me there were a lot of young diabetics in the community that were feeling down about living with this chronic disease. And that made me really sad, because I had been there myself and I knew exactly how they would be feeling. I wanted to find ways … Continue reading Spotlight: Miss Diabetes