always up to somethin

-she talked with war veterans and people with disabilities to accurately depict characters with those backgrounds

-she also researched military corruption extensively

-she fought to bring in more female characters with her editors who opposed it

-she has told her readers that there is no shame in leaving an emotionally toxic situation and you should never feel ashamed of it

-she based the situation with the ishvalan people off of a real displaced indigenous group called the ainu people in hokkaido to raise awareness of their situation

-she criticizes the notion of self sacrifice being a noble thing especially since it’s such a prevalent theme in most shonen manga

-she worked on a farm with a lot of hardworking women and wanted her work to reflect just how complex real women can be rather than overdone anime stereotypes

-she has stated that she thinks there is value in not repressing anger in the face of injustice, and she thinks it’s good to use that anger in constructive ways

-she has emphasized in her story that you don’t always have to forgive the people who hurt you

-she worked on and alongside several other manga one shots, illustrations, character designs, anime adaptions, movie adaptions, and light novels all while having three kids over the course of her career

NEW BOOOOKKKKKSSSSS

IT IS SO FREAKING HARD TO PICK JUST A FEW, but here are some new additions in June that we are HYPED about

Herculine by Grace Byron (all trans girl commune, rural indiana, demons personal or otherwise)

The Open Era by Edward Schmit (debut, tennis romance)

Bloom Town by Ally North (1850’s western, outlaws, kidnapping, conspiracies)

No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed (“a story of borders and boundaries transgressed")

The Unravelling by Benjamin Rosenbaum (“a chaotic romp of gender deconstruction” + sci-fi, neopronouns)

The Way Disabled People Love Each Other by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (poetry, (pandemic) grief, survival, healing)

Saturn Returning by Kim Narby (queer friendship, connection, early adulthood)

Summerhouse by Yigit Karaahmet (“gay wrongs” & “shockingly lovable antiheroes”)

The other ‘A’ in LGBTQIA+ by AUREA (Aromantics stand up!!)

Love’s Not Color Blind: race and representation in polyamorous and other alternative communities by Kevin A. Patterson

Liberating Lawrence: Gay Activism in the 1970’s at the University of Kansas by Katherine Rose-Mockry

Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity ed. Lee Mandelo (spec-fic & sci-fi, queer fiction as protest)

you can find these & many more in our ‘just added’ list on libby

Seeing his own life as valueless, his father placed a great burden on my client to be rich and powerful. One day, during a session, my client blurted out "Dammit. it's his rock I'm pushing up the hill! It's not my rock at all."

"Or maybe even your hill," I offered.

- Writing from the Inside Out, Dennis Palumbo

Fortnight (pt. 1-7)

Best friends forever, including retroactively

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