The Feminist Comic Strip: From Guantanamo to your Relationship
<p>Sarah Mirk and I had this conversation in the offices of <em>Bitch</em> magazine where she works as online editor. After introducing the magazine, for which she regularly uses the medium of comic to describe social/historical/cultural aspects of the feminist struggle, we address her personal work that also engages such medium. In <em>The Secret Life of Gitmo Women</em>, she and Lucy Bellwood created a comic book that recounts the life of two female veterans from the US Navy when they were assigned in Guantanamo Bay. We also talk about prisons and her experience teaching playwriting there, as well as the interesting inmate personalities that the TV show <em>Orange Is the New Black </em>succeeded in creating. We conclude with her forthcoming book <em>Sex From Scratch</em> that attempts to liberate relationships from presupposed rules only to construct new ethical ones day after day.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Sarah Mirk
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast