[Comicsstudiessociety] Disability in Comics seminar: readings, resources you'd recommend?

[Candida Rifkind]

Hi Charles. I just finished Dancing after TEN  and will be teaching it in my Canadian Comics course in the Winter. It's terrific.


Another suggestion is Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong, about post-partum depression (although I didn't look back to see if your course includes mental health): https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Dear-Scarlet


I taught Lee Frances IV's and Weshoyot Alvitre's Sixkiller #1 in my Indigenous Comics course last Fall and students loved it, although they were dying to read the next volumes that aren't out yet. It's an Alice in Wonderland revisioning involving a character with schizophrenia that raises important questions about psychiatry, colonialism, and missing and murdered Indigenous women, even in just the first volume (available digitally):

https://redplanetbooksncomics.com/products/sixkiller-1?_pos=4&_sid=5961c76d4&_ss=r


Will be following for more titles!


Candida


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Thanks, all, for your responses so far!

I’ve submitted a request to join Kriota Willberg’s Graphic Medicine Confab for the remaining sessions — sounds great! (I’ve taught Willberg’s superb “Silver Wire” a few times, and will again; and I’ve written a bit about Webber’s Dumb — looking forward to reading her collaboration with Vivian Chong, Dancing after TEN.)

At this point, I’m particularly anxious to strengthen the intersectionality focus of my “Disability in Comics” syllabus by incorporating sustained works of comics (and relevant scholarship) at the intersection of race and disability.

To that end, can any listers recommend comics or related scholarship with a disability focus by and about BIPOC, Asian, or other “non-white” or racialized subjects? (I am sorry if I’ve posed the question awkwardly or insensitively; I am searching for a better vocabulary.) I’m anxious to find readings, resources, and perhaps scholars or creators who might be willing to Zoom into my grad class.

(Dancing after TEN would seem relevant here. I’m eager for other examples too.)

CH
Charles Hatfield
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