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You Suck at Cooking Xmas Cookies

You don’t need a cookie cutter! Silly combination of sober instructional voice and pace with surreal language and detailed pictures so it manages to push through the brain case anyway.

( 6-minute uncaptioned embedded video )

Prompts From Your Birth Year

Merriam-Webster hosts a gizmo where you plug in your birth year and get more than 25 words that entered the dictionary at that time.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1955 is mine. You don’t have to use their input scheme: just put a four-digit birth year at the end of the link.

I’m thrilled to find words dear to me:

hidden agenda
motormouth
Peking duck
stir-fry
wet suit

The Decameron Project

100 short sf stories (and novel excerpts) free to read:

https://www.patreon.com/projectdecameron

Racism As a Public Health Issue

Right2Health was founded by Leslie Gregory, a certified Physician Assistant, navy veteran, Black woman and mother of two. Since 2006, she’s been focused on healing those affected by everyday racism.

Right To Health is about health prevention. It’s about bringing people together to share, care and alleviate the disparities that come with racial injustice and economic inequality. We are a wholly volunteer group with a vision: to create a national network of healthcare providers, researchers, scientists, healers, community leaders, technologists, educators and anyone else committed to alleviating the ills of racism across all ethnic groups, with particular attention to Black Americans.

https://www.right2healthus.org/about-us

Thirty-minute radio interview (no transcript) exploring the evidence for "racism as public health" from 20 years experience:

https://kboo.fm/media/82934-right-health-director-leslie-gregory-campaigns-racism-be-considered-public-health-issue

Black Nerd Comics by Ajuan Mance

These are beautiful, funny, insightful

http://www.ajuanmance.com

https://checkallthatapply.com

8_rock

Found her work through Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival. It’s a golden group of excellent creators, although sometimes hard reading.

Anna Hamilton is another great writer I met through FWD. I just found their graphic memoir NERVOUS SYSTEMS, hosted on their blog, Too Much Tea. I surprised myself by really liking their basic confessional art style. I generally prefer consciously arty, carefully drawn and colored comics. But these simple pictures, paired with their well-read insight into growing up disabled, managed to break through into my feelings. There are excellent disability studies footnotes. AND, you can learn a bunch without reading any of them. I particularly appreciate the parallels they expose between marked bodies, both "woman" and "disabled."

As Anna says in their afterword:

One aspect of academic writing, and theory, that has confused me for a long time is the expectation that both will be—and should be—written in a style that is inaccessible to all but a comparatively select few. Part of my reason for choosing a format—the graphic novel—that is not looked at as “serious” was to make some very important theoretical concepts accessible to a non-academic audience. Additionally, my own theoretical project of examining women’s chronic physical pain in contemporary culture relates a lot to my own life experiences, and I have had trouble writing about these experiences “academically enough.”

The art is 48 print pages, broken into three web-pages, plus complete image descriptions — which make it very convenient for me to quote the comic-as-text:

( 700-word sample and links )

Content notes: disability slurs; divorce; emesis; CP, anaphylaxis, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, sexism, normate bigotry

[ETA corrected Anna’s pronouns 12 Mar 2024]

...and most of it will be posted to YouTube afterwards.

the New England Graphic Medicine conference is entirely virtual over the next few days and is free. Here's the link to the schedule:

http://gmbulletin.captionbox.net/2020-new-england-graphic-medicine/#program

I'll post the YouTube link later when it's available.

It's using the BigMarker online platform, which runs in the browser. There's CART at https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=2020-March-NEGMC

the Twitter hash is #NEGM20

Interesting on its own, and also as an exemplar of an online pop culture con.

[update: Dec 2024 corrected name and gender: the comic creator is Benjamin Alison Wilgus. He wrote an excellent comic about coming out later in life at The Nib]

ben_wilgus's four-comic WisCon diary is up at The Comics Journal.

The second day captures the vid party singalong

( full comic description )

The vid everyone is singing along to is, of course, bironic’s Starships the archetype of shared delight in fandom. Read up on its origin, execution, and inclusion in a museum exhibit about transformative works. jetpack_monkey’s black&white remix is also delightful

Of the many projects Benjamin juggles, the podcast "Graphic Novel TK" is particularly enlightening. He drills down into the nitty-gritty of comics creation, design, printing, publishing, publicity and more.

https://soundcloud.com/graphicnoveltk

Pam Wye's Graphic memoir "Water I've Loved" is serialized In Mutha Magazine. Very detailed drawings explore daughter- and motherhood in pools and the ocean near Boston. Author's mom has mental illness. Wye captured aquatic joys I'd never had words for.

Typing emoji on a Mac is a lot easier now that I know control-command-spacebar brings up an emoji browser with a search field.

Copyediting FAQ from the great ~~Robert~~ Benjamin Dreyer

( Read more... )

Bella continues to be the best dog

( contains diarrhea )

Emily Steinberg posted: d-Century Hipster, a visual narrative by Emily Steinberg • Cleaver Magazine

Detailed comics about getting a hip replacement. Full text transcript (images not described).

Ashanti Fortson creates comics in jewel tones, set in space, in game-worlds, on earth. They write about the seasons and the heart; disability and disablism; not speaking and being heard. Their art and ideas make me breathe easier.

https://www.ashantifortson.com

( four works worth your time )

Love, sex and female empowerment: GIFs by this week's featured artist, Ghazaleh Rastgar | CBC Arts

These artistic GIFs celebrate the vulva in serious and silly ways.

Why doesn’t PBS publish this level of excellent content?

I welcome crowd-sourced image descriptions in comments

Rhea Ewing is a thoughtful and talented artist. They deploy oils, pencils, collage, as well as digital tools to capture how humans relate to nature. Among other subjects, Rhea's detailed illustrations combine beetles, butterflies, and human hands. I was thrilled to find their work at WisCon, and I'm delighted to support their work via Patreon. Rhea's print "Community" hangs in my living room.

Spend a happy afternoon exploring Rhea's art and writing at their site RheaEwing.com

As long as I've known them, Rhea has been working on FINE: a comic about gender. ( more about FINE )

Going into Town—Roz Chast( 4 of 5 )

SHOWA: a History of Japan, 1926–1939 by Shigeru Mizuki - 4 of 5 stars
( history on two levels )

Visual-only sample pages at the publishers’ web site:
https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/search/showa

Brief histories of everyday objects—Andy Warner - 4 of 5 stars
( the extraordinary origins of the mundane )

A sample item: undescribed comic about brown paper bags
https://medium.com/the-nib/meet-the-mother-of-the-modern-paper-bag–941e6517a870

Queer by Meg John Barker & Julia Scheele — 3 of 5 stars
( Behind the popular formations of theory )

Meg-John’s uncaptioned video trailer for the book:
http://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/sex/queer-the-video/

Andy Hirsch is a real dog lover, and he teamed up with dog experts to create a wonderful comic book in First Second’s Science Comics series: DOGS: from predator to protector.

I loved it. Unlike many science-y comics, the graphics tell as much of the story as the text. It includes a 12-page refresher on basic biology (since my last biology class was in 1967, I found this crucial). It’s narrated by a dog (of course) who is frequently distracted by a ball bouncing in from the left and leaving to the right. ( what I dug, where to get it, more info )

I first saw Fies' work with Mom's Cancer, a sweet and terrifying tour of hope and loss (now available free online):
http://www.gocomics.com/moms-cancer/2015/04/20

He and his wife just lost almost everything in the Santa Rosa fires blazing in central California, and he's made an almost instantaneous comic about it:

A Fire Story.
https://brianfies.blogspot.ca/2017/10/a-fire-story-complete.html
(thanks to

umadoshi for the link)

ETA 4-Nov-2017
Here's a complete image description: I'm contacting Brian to see if he's willing to host it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18wLyt4tETrKULCIlLmIVJOhQHY2E64MRRzJcfzPeQx8/edit?usp=sharing

I've started to make a transcript/image description:
Ping me here if you'd like to help create this.

Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel - 4 of 5 stars

( review )

VISION (volumes 1 & 2) by Tom King / Gabriel Hernandez Walta / Jordie Bellaire - 4 of 5 stars

( Pure pleasure )

Transcendent: the Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction ed. by K.M. Szpara ( 5 of 5 stars )

Trish Trash Roller Girl of Mars, vol 1 by Jessica Abel ( (4 of 5 stars) )

Very silly joke collection on Metafilter https://www.metafilter.com/145070/JokeFilter

Want to know all the shows coming to Hulu in a month? See their press releases here:

https://www.hulu.com/press/posts/hulu-what-s-coming-and-going-in-march

A beautiful comic that meditates on cultural artifacts and a hyphenated Japanese-American identity:

http://jemyoshioka.tumblr.com/post/157138759636/home-home-the-final-comic-in-my-series-about-my

Thankfully I've had a good summer free of nondisabled people annoying me about my health. These folks provide insight and great comebacks.

Hank Green, one progenitor of the internet-based social movement, Don't Forget to be Awesome, has ulcerative colitis. Just like the rest of us with chronic illnesses, he's received years of unsolicited advice for better living without pain: more gluten, less gluten, fish oil, motor oil. In this captioned video, he identifies how and why those intrusive suggestions make him feel like his illness is his own fault.
( embedded video here )

From

genericlottery, a comic strip exposing a common workplace issue: ( description here )
View original at http://genericlottery.tumblr.com/post/144974463354/5262016-chronic-illness-blergh

From

disabilityhealth
In carefully set type these words to live by:
"I don't think you look disabled"
I don't think you look qualified to make that assessment.

View original at http://disabilityhealth.tumblr.com/post/138668604903/i-dont-think-you-look-disabled

The Bad Doctor—Ian Williams( 5 of 5 )

Read if ... You're curious about mundane details of an NHS doctor's life, recreational cycling, OCD, or life in Wales.

Avoid if ... You dislike satanic panic, suicidal ideation, or enactments of OCD

Author website: http://www.myriadeditions.com/creator/ian-williams/
available in print, PDF, Sequential format for iPad

In my last post I neglected to include my single #1 fave online disability-culture resource:
http://www.graphicmedicine.org/
It's multimedia goodness—in addition to pix & reviews, the Graphic Medicine site offers a podcast.

There are many places to read about the social construction of disability. I treasure this site because it helps me understand impairment, and the social construction of medicine.

( let me recommend this site to you )

For people with reading impairments, a crucial accommodation is text describing any meaningful visual information. In braille, it's mandatory. On the net, it's required by the US and WC3 accessibility standards.

You can attach this info to an image with HTML commands. But it's simpler to type it out in a paragraph before or after the image. Many people using slow internet or older feature phones turn off images to speed up loading, so text descriptions also serve these users.

I'm posting for two reasons:

1. I adore the comic and it has already changed how I think and speak. I had to write this description to post it and wanted to make the description available for others.

2. I want to encourage discussion, comments, criticism, suggestions on the utility and accuracy of this description. So comment and signal boost away!

yaoxiaoart created this fabulous comic, and it was the #3 post on Autostraddle for all 2015. For those of us with vision issues, slow net, or feature phones, I describe it here. The visual art is linked at the end.
( #BAOPU15 Yao Xia from Autostraddle )
( If you want to say thank you )

Available in this comic book:

http://www.yao.nyc/everything-is-beautiful

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