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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Making Sense of the World, Making Sense of Ourselves: Graphic Memoirs

Courtney Cook (The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces) and Laura Gao (Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American) explore how growing …

Asian American, Gender, Graphic Novel
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Shadows of Grief

Victoria Chang (Dear Memory) and Kat Chow (Seeing Ghosts) share deep, personal sorrow in their recent memoirs, haunting portraits of grief, remembrance, and meaning. Their books offer close examinations of …

Asian American, In-Person Programming, Memoir
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

The Emotional Pull of Home

Join authors Joanna Eleftheriou (This Way Back), Henry Hoke (Sticker), and Jennifer Niesslein (Dreadful Sorry) as they share their place-centered essays and memoirs, addressing questions of class, history, family, gender, …

Gender, In-Person Programming, LGBTQ
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