Candida Rifkind

2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...

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They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

Girl Guides of Canada Inclusion makes Girl Guides of Canada stronger. It ensures that girls and youth have a place to build confidence, develop the skills to thrive and connect with a community that sees them for who they truly are. Girl Guides of Canada welcomes all girls - cisgender and transgender - as well as non-binary people who are comfortable in spaces that focus on and are driven by the experience of girls. Learn more about our commitment to inclusivity and accessibility at girlguides.ca/inclusivity

Girl Guides logo with a trans flag ribbon in one corner.

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

My parents and my aunties are currently traveling abroad to visit family, and I’m making them text me their whole way there and while they travel back just in case, and you’re out here with your little Spotify Wrapped, like they didn’t just double down on doing business with ICE.

Stop using Spotify oh my GOD

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

This is so good!

Such a beautiful essay about lost family memories

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS PUTTING ON HER COAT AS SHE LISTENS TO THE RADIO… RADIO ANNOUNCER: AVOID FLU GERMS---NEVER SIT NEXT TO ANYONE WITH A COLD P2- WE SEE THAT NANCY IS GOING TO THE THEATRE, BUT SHE IS CARRYING A LARGE SACK ON HER BACK P3- NANCY IS SITTING IN A THEATER SEAT AND ON EACH SIDE OF HER SHE HAS DOLLS AND STUFFED ANIMALS IN THE THEATER SEATS

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 28,1963

The cover of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind includes a panel from a graphic novel.

Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

Graphic Refuge: Panel Discussion on Comics and Migration I’m participating in the Graphic Refuge book panel event with Dr Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind on 19th of November, at 5pm [UK time], at City St. George’s University of London.

This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge

Oh wow this will be so good for teaching a book my students already love

NEW: No Arms In The Arts launches boycott of the Scotiabank Photo Award.

70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations.

boycottphotoaward.org

Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Taking the Cats for a Ride, Central Park, New York, March 20, 1976 by Barbara Alper www.instagram.com/balper_nyc/

James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97 Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks

Excuse me, @theguardian.com, I'd like to report an error in your headline; this should read "James D Watson, who co-discovered Rosalind Franklin's notebook showing her discovery of DNA's twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97"

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Budget 2025 proposes to provide $150 million in 2025-26 for CBC/RadioCanada to strengthen its mandate to serve the public and to better reflect the needs of Canadians. The government will explore modernising CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate to strengthen independence, and is working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in Eurovision.

The most important part of today's #federalbudget2025: Canada joining Eurovision!

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Love this! Going to try it with my students later this term.

You would barely notice looking at most of its major media outlets, but there is no longer any question that America is now governed by an official policy of white supremacy.

Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!

Graphic Refuge Panel Event - 19th November You are invited to the Graphic Refuge panel event with Dr. Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind

Co-authored by @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @crifkind.bsky.social, Graphic Refuge (@wlupress.bsky.social 2025) explores graphic narratives about a range of refugee experiences. You're invited to a panel event to celebrate the book: www.hcid.city/news/graphic...

If you're teaching in a classroom and you use the chalkboard/whiteboard, you erase that board after class before you leave

Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies

Tweet from Kneecap responding to Vince Gasparro

Message to Gasparro calling him a liar and a zunt.

Message to fans in Canada: we've played Canada many times but your government is made up of genocidal cunts, sorry.

I like Kneecap's response.

Nice one @theguardian.com front page & Carol Ann Duffy ❤️. 

If you are still on the garbage website Academia dot edu, delete that account asap

Thanks @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social to talk about our new co-authored book exploring how comics can document & disrupt dominant images of war & forced displacement @wlupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/graphic-refuge