New ALA Comics!

February 17, 2016

ALA has hired me to do conference marketing comics. Here's my latest! They've featured them on their website, in emails, and soon to be bookmarks and social media.

Thanks Audre Lorde

Today I was learning about Fannie Lou Hamer.

Today reading "Be the Change: Six Disabled Activists On Why the Resistance Must Be Accessible" on Autostraddle and this quote is by s.e. smith. https://www.autostraddle.com/be-the-change-six-disabled-activists-on-why-the-resistance-must-be-accessible-368956/

Octavia Butler, badass scifi writer everyone should read, wrote this in Parable of the Sower. I'm thinking about the incredible work of people fighting for the rights of all of us, for even our own humanity, and of the hatred they receive in turn. Thinking about white supremacists and their hatred towards the work that carries their redemption for instance - the work of liberation for all.

Have you checked out @blklivesmatter black futures month??? Inspired by Shanelle Williams article to create some strange figures about radical imagination http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5891dc4fe4b0522c7d3e1467

Today's quote from Frantz Fannon, a psychiatrist and anti-colonial revolutionary from Martinique. His fierce writing taught me lots in college and I'm thinking today about recognizing.

Heard at an excellent @lascafeteras show tonight. Thanks for the reminder and the beautiful music and words. (Also, don't look to close at the don't)

A poem by Ibtisam Barakat, Palestinian-American author, poet, translator, artist and educator. http://www.ibtisambarakat.com

Didn't get it together to make a drawing today but here is a recent painting for @ranger_duney with Judith Butler's words.

Thanks bell hooks. Thanks teachers! Thanks learners. Dang.

Thinking about the ban and walls, and feeling inspired by the poetry of trans South Asian poetry duo (now disbanded) DarkMatter. This poem, Jealousy, is about art and love of many kinds and I'm thinking about how that factors in today. I recommend seeking out their work! @ranger_duney gave me this book of poems! Thank you!

Today's quote is by José Martí, Cuban nationalist poet and journalist. This is part of the job of an artist I think! An artist that makes beautiful art about resistance is @jessxsnow check her out!