by Matt Peters Content advisory: Discussions of sexual violence and other interpersonal violence The abbreviation MMIW, short for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, was created to name an ongoing crisis affecting indigenous people in North America.(1) In the United States, Native American women are overrepresented in homicide and missing persons cases compared to non-Native women. In some Native American communities, women are murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average. In the U.S., challenges related to law enforcement and criminal justice have been a major driver of the crisis, in particular when non-Native perpetrators commit… Read More
Surgeon X – The Path of Most Resistance
by Matt Peters Surgeon X: The Path of Most Resistance is a graphic novel that blends dystopian fiction, mystery, and medical drama in a fast-paced story about a global public health crisis. Set in London in 2036, Surgeon X imagines what will happen as the world enters a post-antibiotic era, a time when bacterial infections become increasingly difficult to treat, because bacterial evolution has outpaced pharmaceutical science. In this imagined future, antibiotic-resistant strains have emerged, leaving clinicians all but helpless when treating pneumonia, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and other infections. In the real world of today, medical experts have predicted that… Read More
Homicide – the graphic novel – part 2
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Homicide – The Graphic Novel, Part One
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