Author: Christa Seeley

Soviet Daughter: A Graphic RevolutionSoviet Daughter, Julia Alekseyeva, Microcosm Publishing, 2017 Julia Alekseyeva Microcosm Publishing January 10th 2017

Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution

Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution Julia Alekseyeva Microcosm Publishing January 10th, 2017 A review copy was provided from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Soviet Daughter is a graphic biography of a women named Lola, born in 1910 to a poor Jewish family outside of Kiev. She lived through the Bolshevik revolution, the civil war, the Stalinist…

Born Both: Books about the Intersex Experience

Hida Viloria was raised a girl, but always felt different. It wasn’t just that they were attracted to girls, but unlike many other people in the first world who are born intersex–meaning they have genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns that do not fit standard definitions of male or female–Viloria’s parents did not have their…

Books that Moved Us in 2016

2016 was kind of an odd year for books. There was a new Harry Potter (of sorts), more celebrity memoirs than we will ever need, and some Star Wars novelizations. A number of books were published to great acclaim—The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien and The Sellout by Paul Beatty, to name…

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