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Journal comic. Inktober day 14.

Even if the rest of your life is in chaos, try to still take care of yourself where you can! Keep yourself together like an egg-chibird tucked into an avocado toast. 🍳🍞

I will judge you by your bookshelf. 

A Writer’s Hierarchy of Needs

For The New York Times Book Review. 

when a woman is smarter, classier, makes more money - it’s because “she studies something easy” “slept her way to the top” “used affirmative action to get what she needs”

“overwhelmingly, men are perpetrators of mass violence” i say. this is a fact. i am reminded not to be too generalizing, because that isn’t fair. not all men, after all.

women are used to this. when we hold up serena williams, laverne cox, mae c. jemison to prove: we can do the same as you. we are told: no, those are the exception. there’s something wrong in the system or in them that makes it so they rose above their station. they’re not like other women. but every woman who is bitter, bitchy, cruel: they’re proof all women have personalities that follow the stereotype rules. it doesn’t matter that women are better surgeons, girls do better than boys in school, women are better leaders, better lawyers, are better at investing and finances, better drivers. but all women are stupid, hysterical, emotional messes that can’t drive and would nuke the country if someone called them a mean name.

but it’s not all men. not all police officers. not all frat boys. not all, just some bad apples, just some, don’t i know to judge people on the content of their character and not on who they are.

from the time they’re young, boys are given the benefit of the doubt. from the time girls are young, they’re told the majority of them will drown.

people are scrambling to figure out what is wrong with american schools that girls are doing so much better. maybe it’s because girls are suddenly now more likely to be morning people? is it unfair grading? is it some type of learning-style difference? is it all the exposure to female teachers? after all, if girls are doing so much better, there’s something wrong, right? there’s something wrong with the system?

Miena:  Gentle, breezy, beautiful moving environments

Miena creates evocative and moody landscapes similar to that of Yutuu Toyoi (of 1040uu fame).  She delicately balances the drawing and the motion together in exactly the right proportion so that you feel that you are in that particular place;  reading a book, having some tea, and feeling the gentle breeze in your hair.

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Pride month is almost over, but we still have one more influential figure from the LGBT community to tell you about.

Sally Ride is the first known LGBT astronaut and first American woman to travel to space in 1983, and she did so aboard the soon to be ill-fated Challenger space shuttle. She was part of a 5 person crew, whose mission was to deploy communication satellites and conduct pharmaceutical experiments. Whilst on this mission, Ride became the first woman to use a robot arm in space, and the first person to use the arm to retrieve a satellite.

After the Challenger accident, Ride was appointed to the Presidential Commission investigating the incident. She was instrumental in the cause of the explosion being linked to O-rings. She later became a professor of physics at the University of California, and the director of the California Space Institute.

Ride devoted the latter part of her life to encouraging children, particularly girls, to study STEM subjects. She co-founded Sally Ride Science, an organisation that creates science programmes and publications for upper elementary and middle school students. She also wrote six children’s science books with her partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy.

Ride passed away in 2012, but her legacy lives on in both her incredible achievements, Sally Ride Science, which is now chaired by her partner Tam.

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New comic for The Southampton Review!