profeminist:Jillian Tamaki Talks Comics, Mutants, and Why Canada is Awesome“You’ve said

profeminist:Jillian Tamaki Talks Comics, Mutants, and Why Canada is Awesome“You’ve said before that you feel very strongly as a feminist. I wonder if you want to say what that means to you?”“I’ve never even questioned being a feminist because I feel that I have personally benefitted from political feminist movements, given the fact that I can go to school or vote or wear pants. I just feel like all those things I have benefitted from were really hard fought. When I was younger in college or high school, there were a lot of very smart women I knew who were progressive in a lot of ways that would refuse to call themselves a feminist. It used to drive me bonkers. How did you get here? How did you get to the point you can go to college? You can have boyfriends. You can live with your partner without being married. You can be on birth control. How do you think you got to have that position of privilege? It was political action by really brave women! I’m glad that at least that word is present again and it’s not a dirty word like it was when I was a little bit younger. In terms of personally, I’m trying to be conscious and to present women’s issues and be conscious of the bigger feminist picture in all areas of my life: my personal life, my professional life, my political life. That’s why not every woman is strong in our books. To see them as whole human beings is unfortunately less common than it should be. That’s always been important to me, even in illustration work.Read the full interview hereI just took Skim out from the library, now I can’t wait to check out SuperMutant Magic Academy!Reblogging because I just finished Skim and it is INCREDIBLE. The graphic novel, written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, is a coming of age story with a format where Kim / “Skim”’s diary entries are turned into comic / graphic format. Skim is a goth wiccan and I really loved the character.I’ll do a separate post later on Skim, but I wanted to say in the meanwhile that any readers looking for an amazing LGBTQIA+ coming of age story, or a girl of color coming of age story, GO OUT AND GET THIS BOOK! I borrowed it from the library for the low cost of free! Content warning for Skim: the two plot-lines are both pretty heavy. A teacher/student lesbian romantic attraction and “will it happen?” relationship, and high school kids handling the aftermath of a suicide. If you are triggered by depression, suicide, and/or adult - teen relationships, avoid Skim. I’m going to track down SuperMutant Magic Academy now, that looks like WAY lighter reading!From Skim: -- source link

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