Video: Making Lesbians Visible (Invited Talk, Ringling College)

Video: Making Lesbians Visible (Invited Talk, Ringling College)

On September 9, 2022, I had the great pleasure of giving an invited talk, “Making Lesbians Visible: Recovering the Social History of the 1990s Lesbian Comics Boom,” to a packed room of art students at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. The talk is part of my second book project, Comics in Movement, that examines how transnational communities of LGBTQ cartoonists innovated comics through various grassroots formats in the 1980s-1990s. Inspired by the talk, I put together a resource guide to queer comics.

You can access the video of the talk here.

Article: Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community

Article: Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community

My essay, “Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community,” has been published in the collection, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions (University Press of Mississippi, 2022). It received an honorable mention for the Comics Studies Society’s 2023 Article Prize. The collection won an Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
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Resource: Open-Access Digitized Grassroots Media

Resource: Open-Access Digitized Grassroots Media

I often teach archivally-focused undergraduate and graduate seminars where students research the visual culture of American progressive grassroots media (1960s-1990s), focusing in on feminist and LGBTQ periodicals. We examine cover graphics, comics, drawings, photographs, advertisements, typography, layout, and other elements of the periodicals’ visual aesthetics.

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Resource: Ten Reasons to Study Comics at UF & in Gainesville

Resource: Ten Reasons to Study Comics at UF & in Gainesville

The University of Florida is known for being the first institution in the US to offer comics studies as a course of study, and it continues to be one of the premier places to study comics. The late Dr. Donald Ault was responsible for developing UF as an important hub of comics studies, but many faculty and students have further built that tradition in the decades since. The following list gives you a sense of the many and varied opportunities for engaging comics that move beyond the department and the university.
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Article: Servants to What Cause:  Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals

Article: Servants to What Cause: Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals

My essay, “Servants to What Cause: Illustrating Queer Movement Culture through Grassroots Periodicals,” has been published in the collection, The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The University Press of Mississippi chose this chapter as the free excerpt to represent the book, so you can enjoy my chapter through the free PDF on the UPM website!
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