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Until I Love Myself by Poppy Pesuyama
"A look at sexual harassment and bullying from the perspective of a nonbinary person. It gets heavy, with lots of sexism, self-loathing, bulimia, self-harm, and depression, but it does make note of some progress, such as it is, over the decades.

The author jumps frequently between their childhood, twenties, and thirties, and some time periods are more interesting than others, but the stories kept my attention throughout."
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Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 1 by Natsuki Takaya
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Review7350582067 Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:20:12 -0700 <![CDATA[Meepelous added 'Constitution Illustrated']]> /review/show/7350582067 Constitution Illustrated by Robert Sikoryak Meepelous gave 1 star to Constitution Illustrated (Paperback) by Robert Sikoryak
bookshelves: nonfiction, usa
Content note for american exceptionalism.

Keywords that came to mind reading this very compact volume: Diversity washing, comics history, copy and paste.

Before digging into what I thought of the writing and art I would like to highlight that I really really really am a huge fan of graphic nonfiction and its potential to help people understand complex topics more easily via visual language. And while the summary I just read tries to say that this volume does that well, I would like to argue that it is at most a very shallow rendering. Because nothing about this book made anything about the constitution of the so called united states of america any easier to understand, and I truly feel like it was actually more difficult to understand being broken up like it was between so many tiny pages that were mostly illustration.

Even trying to integrate the timeline of how the current constitution came together over the past 200+ years, instead of tucking it way back in the final pages, would have been mildly helpful.

As it is, Sikoryak thinks he's doing some sort of heavy lifting by juxtapositioning lines from the constitution and vaguely related comic book icons. Albeit skillfully rendered on a technical proficiency level.

Some pages felt particularly egregious when one is not a fan of Hamilton's style of diversity washing the so called founding fathers. Did you know that Toni Morrison hated the musical Hamilton and helped fund the production of a play entitled "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda"? If not, I suggest you look into it. ]]>
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