It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didnβt even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasnβt even in the equation.
I canβt imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!
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Iβm so excited this is finally in the world!
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A one-panel comic by Glauco Villas Boas. A group of people stand against the corner of a wall. One reaches around the corner and uses a long stick to push open a door labeled 2025.
This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).
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NEW
YEARS
RULIN'S
1 WORK MORE AND BETTER
2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE
3. WASH TEETH IE ANY
4. SHAVE
5. Π’ΠΠΠ ΠΠΠ’Π
6. EAT 600D - FRUIT - VEGETABLES
1. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY
8. WRITE A SONG A DAY
9. WERR CLEAN CLOTHES - 200K 600D
10. SHINE SHOES
11. CHANGE SOCKS
12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN
13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS
14, LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT
MILK
15, LERRN PEOPLE BETTER
16, KEEP RANCHO CLEAN
12. DONT GET LONESOME
18, STAY GLAD
19, KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING
20, DREAM 600D.
21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY
22. SAVE DOUGH
23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DONT WASTE TIME
24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY
25, PLAY AND SING GOOD
26. DANCE BETTER
27. HELP WIN WAR - BEAT FASCISM
28, LOVE MAMA
29. LOVE PAPA
3O, LOVE PETE
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32, MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33, WAKE UP AND FIGHT
Counterpoint to Woolf: Woody Guthrieβs list of #NewYearsResolutions for 1943
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT
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Praise be for week long breaks from these teens.
22.11.2024 19:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Spending the day with my Crooms high school kiddos at District Thespian competitions. Iβm really starting to love this job.
16.11.2024 23:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Officially deleted my Twitter. I donβt think Iβll miss that cesspit.
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Abstracts for this are due tomorrow!
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Seeing Stories, A Special Issue of Inks CFA
Seeing Stories: The Contexts of Indigenous Comics A Special Issue of Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society Edited by Jeremy M. Carnes and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The p...
I'm so excited to share the following call for abstracts on Indigenous comics for a special issue of Inks. Share far and wide! Kate and I also want to make sure to thank Lisa Tatonetti, Susan Bernardin, and Chadwick Allen for their support and guidance!
Check out the link to the call here:
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Research Guides: McCabe Comic Books Collection: Comics in the Digital Age
The comic book collection in McCabe was a gift from Swarthmore alum Richard A. Lamb '88. Upcoming Conversation and Reception at McCabe Library, Sept. 20, 2023
For those of you interested in hearing the presentation on Comics in the Digital Age, the video is now live on ourΒ LibGuide featuring
@margaretgalvan.bsky.social @retrosofa.bsky.social Josh Kopin and Bryn Ziegler at Swarthmore Library π
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I canβt even describe to you all how much I loved hanging out with @marinaomi.bsky.social at the Comics Studies Society conference. They are great great great peoples!
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A sign reads βIβm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.β
My brand:
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Weekend reading:
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todayβs reading
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I am enjoying this platform. I wish more of my peoples were here, but i suppose minimal access is what makes it an enjoyable place to be.
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Donβt agonize, orcanize π³
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Me on this app trying to re-find everyone I've ever known and loved
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βLanguage was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.β -Babel, by R.F. Kuang
Yβall, this book was astounding.
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PhD Dundee Uni | Comics & the American West π | Associate Editor Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics | Collections Librarian π | Author of Redrawing the Western (UTP, 2024)
Professor, Director, Oregon State University. Ed, Gender & Am. West (Routledge); Indigenous comics & lit. Red Soxer in PNW (she, her).
comics & zines
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she/her | Pinay π΅π | totallt inept w/ copyeditimg, fact-checking, proofing my stuff, ugh
Petroculture, Climate Justice Education, Childhood and Childrenβs Lit, Critical Filipino Studies, Comics/Komiks
Critical #feministgeography. #graphicmedicine #Comics
Associate Professor @Brock UniversityGEOG
Co-chair @Graphic Medicine International Collective
Co-Editor @ACME Journal
Collaborator @Mapping Ann Marie MacDonald
Bi/ace & nonbinary (they) comics & zines maker (as Great Bear Comics), editor, professor, & folklorist who researches comics culture in India & internationally
Writer, Artist. THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY out now Penguin Random House, 2025
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753097/this-beautiful-ridiculous-city-by-kay-sohini/
Indigiqueer anti-colonial scholar activist β’
professor β’ social worker β’ Auntie
Siksikaitsitaapii and Nimiipuu (Blackfeet and Nez Perce)
In some movies and shows.
Founder of Red Pop! News | Indigenous Journalist & Speaker | Disability & Media Advocate | Workshops on Indigenous storytelling, justice, and mental health
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Mvskoke/Semvnole. Daughter of Kaccvlke.
Native Rights Advocate. Journalist.
She/They
I thrive in chaos which is why I don't mind creating a bit of it every once in awhile.
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Univ. HH.Am.Studies.The long 19th c;author of βProducing Mass Entertainment:The Serial Life of the Yellow Kidβ (OSUP 2019).Eisner Award nominee.President of ComFor e.V. Gardening.she/her
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she/her, Danish/Australian, PhD in comics studies and feminist theory. Author of 'Super-Girls of the Future' (Routledge 2023) and co-editor of 'Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature' (w/Emily J. Hogg, Edinburgh UP, May 2025).
Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
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Professor at CUNY, scholar of Blackness, comics, music, & popular culture writ large, leftist & left handed. π°π³ πΊπΈ π΅πΈ π³οΈββ§οΈ
I maintain the Blackademics feed, the scholarly side of #Blacksky
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π΅π·writer and momπ» Mixed Race Afro-BoricuaβAsst Prof of #LatinxLit & Alum in the CUNYverse| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, poetry, crochet π§Ά, shitposting, ADHDer
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Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
"Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures." βΒ Harvey Pekar
asst. professor of black lit β’ immediate past prez of comics studies society β’ got that p.m.a.
Teacher of the youths. Scholar of comics, media, and popular culture. Fan of all things Alison Blaire. Music enthusiast. First-generation academic. Xennial. ENFJ. Current writing projects revolve around transmedia storyworlds in K-pop.
