Julia’s Pick of the Week: Guantanamo Voices

“… This is perhaps the most insidious aspect of Guantanamo Bay’s legacy— just how easy it is to forget. Even though the camps still house prisoners, the entire place feels like something from a prior epoch, a piece of ancient history, buried now beneath the daily scandals and calamities that have come to define the…

Julia’s Pick of the Week: Be Gay, Do Comics!

Be Gay, Do Comics! Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib is an Ignatz Award-winning comic anthology edited by Matt Bors, featuring contributions by Sasha Velour, Matt Lubchansky, Melanie Gillman, Maia Kobabe, and many, many other indie cartoonists. The book explores a wide variety of different aspects of the LGBTQIA+ experience, containing autobiographical comics,…

Julia’s Pick of the Week: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Shortly after quitting her job in order to care for her new baby, Kim Jiyoung begins to act a little strange. She begins to impersonate other women, taking on their voices and mannerisms with extraordinary accuracy. Initially amused, her husband grows perturbed when Jiyoung appears to have no memory of such impersonations when they happen.…