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Graphic Medicine Project: My Perfectly Imperfect Body and The Realities of Chronic Illnesses

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by Alaina Santiago My Perfectly Imperfect Body by Debbie Tung presents a graphic medicine memoir that dives into what it really means to live in a body that’s not cooperative. The story explores feelings of hardship, frustration, and what that experience looks like to the outside world. Similar to other graphic medicine works such as, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michaelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney, The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Benjamin Bennett, MD  by Ian Williams, and Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec, the strength of these individuals cannot be understood through… Read More

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City – A Graphic Memoir

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by Lilian Nyamongo Content Advisory: This book contains discussion of suicide with some suicidal imagery. The crisis Lifeline number in the U.S. and Canada is 988, in the U.K. it’s 999; and for elsewhere go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines.There are occurrences of domestic violence. National Domestic Violence Hotline in the United States is 800-799-7233; text 988; or use this weblink, https://www.thehotline.org/. In Canada use https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion/stop-family-violence/services.html. In the UK use https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/. And elsewhere in the world, one could use https://www.nomore.org/the-no-more-global-directory/, https://www.domesticshelters.org/resources/national-global-organizations/international-organizations, or https://www.theamieffect.com/global-directory-of-abuse-helplines/. Part memoir, part love letter to New York City, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is a thoughtful exploration of what it… Read More

Boxers & Saints

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by Kevin Wolf Content Advisory: These books include a tormented character killing himself. The crisis Lifeline number in the U.S. and Canada is 988, in the U.K. it’s 999; and for elsewhere go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines.   In honor of May being Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month, my graphic novel book club at my local library had read the two-volume series by Gene Luen Yang entitled Boxers & Saints about the attempted expulsion and killing in the year 1900 of Chinese-converted-Christians and non-Chinese (“foreign”) people (including Americans, Europeans, Russians, and Japanese) from China. Throughout my reading and notetaking for… Read More

The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History

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by Emiliano Aguilar On October 30th, 1950, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party organized a series of uprising in cities across the archipelago of Puerto Rico. Directed by the leader of the Nationalist Party, Pedro Albizu Campos, Nationalists mobilized uprisings in San Juan, Utuado, Jayuya, Ponce, and Arecibo, among others. The violence of this uprising was not isolated to Puerto Rico, as two Nationalists attacked the Blair House in Washington, D.C. —traditionally The President’s Guest House, but used as the temporary residence of Truman during extensive renovations on the White House—as a part of a plot to assassinate U.S. President Harry… Read More