Sarah Shay Mirk! Comics + journalism. @thenib forever! Formerly of @reveal & @bitchmedia / zine-maker & author of Guantanamo Voices. She/they š³ļøāššÆš„
Portland, OR
Joined March 2009
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If youāre learning about Guantanamo from the new season of @serial, here are two comics sharing first-hand accounts from the prison that are really powerful. These are voices we all need to hear.
Mansoor Adayfi: thenib.com/caged-lives/
Matt Diaz: thenib.com/the-weight-of-hisā¦
Listening to the new @serial about Guantanamo and it gets right to the point: we put people in prison without knowing who they were and with no path to releasing them. Listen to the show! nytimes.com/interactive/2024ā¦
āItās exhausting because youāre pretending.ā This is exactly how I felt reporting at Guantanamo. So messed up.
Both of these stories are featured in my book Guantanamo Voices. You can get a copy right here. Message me if youāre a teacher and want a discount (teachers should never pay full price in my opinion). mirkwork.com/buy-my-stuff/guā¦
The next season of @serial is about Guantanamo. I got an alert today that they shout out Guantanamo Voices in their āspecial thanksā section. š Iām glad this horrific, ongoing crime is getting more attention. I hope the show changes Americansā understanding of Guantanamo
Since October, I've been working behind-the-scenes on a project with my cartoonist friends Yazan al-Saadi, Tracy Chahwan, and Andy Warner: an online archive of comics responding to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. cartoonistsforpalestine.org/
Social media sites have a lot of profit-driven limitations and censorship, so we felt that there really needs to be an independent site dedicated to publishing and preserving comics about what's happening right now.
Through comics, we can shape the narratives told about ourselves and our worldāand in that way, we hope to provoke change. cartoonistsforpalestine.org/
Wow, in France, one in four books sold is a graphic narrative. This is really good news for people who make nonfiction comics! nytimes.com/2024/01/24/booksā¦
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Transphobia loses elections
I've seen enough: Andy Beshear (D) wins reelection in #KYGOV, defeating Daniel Cameron (R).
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Abortion, Every Day Exclusive:
Idaho has brought forward charges in the state's first 'abortion trafficking' case.
Law enforcement used geolocation data to place a teenager at an Oregon abortion clinic.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This case involves several crimes including rape of a minor, and kidnapping across state lines with the intention of obscuring the sexual assault by ending the underaged femaleās pregnancy without parental authority or consent. Jessicaās statement omits these facts. rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/idaho/youā¦
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I spent the past month (months, maybe?) digging into the roots of the state's homeless crisis -- and potential solutions.
Here's part one of the resulting story (stay tuned for the second half, coming tomorrow): opb.org/article/2023/10/09/oā¦
Iām teaching two comics classes starting in October: Memoir comics and creating queer comics. Both these classes are online, so anyone, anywhere can join. I LOVE teaching them! These classes feel super special to me. ā¤ļø sign up! mirkwork.com/buy-my-stuff/crā¦
And hereās the link to the Queer Comics class. Both of these are $150. I offer a discount to BIPOC participants and to anyone for whom the cost is a hardship. Just DM me for a discount code! mirkwork.com/buy-my-stuff/crā¦
But seriously, as @PENamerica documents, many, many of the challenges to books target books with queer and trans themes. Kids and teens need to see themselves represented on the page. Gay comics save lives.