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Nate Powell
@Nate_Powell_Art
Comics maker, Arkansan, dad, aging punk— my newest book is SAVE IT FOR LATER: abramsbooks.com/product/save-i
Bloomington, INlinktr.ee/natepowellJoined November 2013
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Thanks to everyone who’s stood behind SAVE IT FOR LATER— unfortunately it’ll remain increasingly relevant as both a time capsule and a letter to our days of future present. 2 starred reviews, 4 award nominations, 5 best-of-year lists. ♥️
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It’s a real challenge to adapt LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME during a real-time fascist power grab that includes history books & public education as one of its prime routes of attack. I transcribed & updated this sequence (from the updated 2017 edition of Jim’s book) in Oct 2020– 1/
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“They put our history behind a wall. Put some books behind the wall. Put parents, youth & their physicians behind a wall. Put poor & underserved children behind a wall. Put gay & trans Arkansans behind a wall. Put public school teachers behind a wall.”
arktimes.com
Arkansas LEARNS builds a wall of ignorance and fear
The choice to pass the Arkansas LEARNS school privatization bill was not a data-driven decision. Just politics, but with a very high human cost. The walls of ignorance, racism, prejudice, selfishne...
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ND Stevenson
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Conservatives intentionally use provocative language to reframe the conversation to their advantage. An ironic “how many drag queens were involved?” after a school shooting still accepts the dishonest framing of drag queens as dangerous and controversial.
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… it’s astounding that the situation described here will seem downright QUAINT on the first day the book is published. I’m very thankful for Jim’s trust in taking the helm with his work after he passed away in 2021– but it’s daunting and the stakes is high. 😰 x
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… trying to use a cutting-edge lens of our near future. In May 2021, far-right censorship & book-ban campaigns began in earnest. I’ll be finishing this page in October 2023 for release in mid-2024, and it’s terrifying that the situation described will seem downright QUAINT.. 2/
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Nate Powell
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It’s a real challenge to adapt LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME during a real-time fascist power grab that includes history books & public education as one of its prime routes of attack. I transcribed & updated this sequence (from the updated 2017 edition of Jim’s book) in Oct 2020– 1/
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Thank you Tim! For those interested, here’s more info on Save It For Later, and a bazillion ways to order it: abramsbooks.com/product/save-i
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Tim Smyth
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This is a must buy book from @Nate_Powell_Art who, as always, connects past and present civil rights struggles in a human and powerful way. I literally saw myself in his struggles the past few years against all this hatred. This is my daughter and I at youtu.be/n4L07GxXT_w… Show more
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Zoé
@ztsamudzi
The punishment for failing to conform to controls on gender is non-existence, i.e. elimination. It might not look the way we’ve come to imagine genocidal politics look, but it is a fascist and genocidal policy all the same.
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Amy Dallen
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Must-read reflections from
@Nate_Powell_Art
on 10 years (how!) since he finished drawing the first volume of the classic “March.”
Cover of the Graphic Novel ‘March: Book One’ showing key characters engaging in a sit-in on the lower half, with an illustration of moving feet across the top. A sigh in the bottom says ‘Counter Closed.’ Credits under the title: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
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10 years ago this weekend, I had just finished drawing March: Book One and joined my collaborators on a pilgrimage to sites of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Montgomery & Selma. Been thinking a lot about that decade’s passage, what we’ve lost & what’s returned.
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10 years ago this weekend, I had just finished drawing March: Book One and joined my collaborators on a pilgrimage to sites of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Montgomery & Selma. Been thinking a lot about that decade’s passage, what we’ve lost & what’s returned.
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Ari Drennen
@AriDrennen
If you don’t think “we have to ban transgenderism entirely” counts as genocidal rhetoric, I would encourage you to swap in another group for trans people and see if a lightbulb goes off for you and then consider that trans people are also people.
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Ali Noland
@alimbrady
These students at Central High just got the ADG to run a huge front page story exposing the flaws of the LEARNS bill. They’re the same kids who blew us away when they presented a well-researched proposal to the school board regarding solar energy. 🔥🔥🔥
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Edu­ca­tion bill pro­tested at Cent­ral High | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Over 1,000 stu­dents at Little Rock Cent­ral High School walked out in protest of Gov. Sarah Sanders’ LEARNS Act on Fri­day. This comes after stu­dents released a let­ter to the gov­ernor about her...
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At the weekend’s end, I paid a visit to my childhood house in Montgomery, and the nearby ditches & woods where my imagination took root (which you may recognize from Any Empire). That ditch ends at the Old Troy Highway, leading straight to John Lewis’s childhood home.
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I’m remembering that weekend through the lens of our still-early work on the March trilogy, but am mostly struck with sadness & anger at most of white America’s refusal to question, learn, grow & fight back against rapidly-consolidating fascism TODAY, HERE, NOW. One decade.
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Then-Montgomery police chief symbolically removing & giving his badge to John Lewis (specifically identifying white supremacist police forces as “doing the work of evil”), then being fired for it shortly afterward— a decade later, this kind of gesture is unthinkable from police.
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It’s gotten harder to wrap my head around the weekend’s sincerity & sense of reckoning, in the knowledge of the last decade’s rise of mainstreamed fascism & white supremacy— inc concrete work to dismantle the entirety of our society’s gains from the civil rights movement onward.
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10 years ago this weekend, I had just finished drawing March: Book One and joined my collaborators on a pilgrimage to sites of the civil rights struggle in Birmingham, Montgomery & Selma. Been thinking a lot about that decade’s passage, what we’ve lost & what’s returned.
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Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦
@RonFilipkowski
And now we have the ‘Don’t Say Mean Things About Desantis Bill.’ Anyone who writes an “article or story” about “the Governor, Lt. Gov, or Cabinet member” and receives compensation must register with the state within 5 days of publication.
wfla.com
Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state
Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet or legislature to regist…
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Erin Reed
@ErinInTheMorn
Happening now, the Arkansas Senate is set to vote on the first bathroom ban for transgender adults since the 2015 North Carolina bathroom bill. It would charge trans adults with sex crimes if they are in a bathroom at the same time as a child. Watch with me live. 🧵
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Jessica Hopper
@jesshopp
The original cut of episode 3 of Women Who Rock was 97 minutes long in part because we had so much Riot Grrrl- era footage, and Allison Smith and Kathleen talks about WHY it was so necessary to carve a space for radical feminism in punk.
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Grrls2Front
@Grrls2Front
🔥🤘'Women Who Rock' 🤘🔥This documentary series is brilliant. Hunt it down, watch it! Though am grumbling they never played Bikini Kill's Rebel Girl in it.. bah! But at least the had Kathleen Hannah speaking about GIRLS TO THE FRONT! 🔥 One thing this.. youtu.be/6c8yDgWMUEA
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Shoutout to
@andrewaydin
for years of contextualizing the history of young people in protest movements & the need for student loan debt cancellation— the earliest I remember him doing this is spring 2015, arguing directly to the Federal Reserve when we paid them a little visit.
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When your own crew is miserable & disease-ridden, leaving your society to join nearby Native communities, but you refuse to accept that maybe the problem is you. 😬 (from LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME, out in 2024)
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Shannon Hale
@haleshannon
"But if I let the kids read graphic novels, that's ALL they'll read." Parents, allow me to console you: 1. Some kids don't read at all. Reading is reading. 2. After gaining confidence by reading comics, most kids also read prose novels 3. But if they don't--it's STILL READING!
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Jared Yates Sexton
@JYSexton
What I found writing my book THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM absolutely stunned me. Authoritarians always target educators and educational systems in order to control knowledge and reality itself We’re in a moment that resembles past crises, including the Civil War and the rise of Nazism.
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Mark Twang
@JordanGWrites
I an reading @JYSexton ‘s The Midnight Kingdom, and this passage on the rise of German fascism floored me. You can substitute out any of those highlighted words and you have a carbon copy of what’s happening today in 2023. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it tends to rhyme.
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