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Daran, ICE has quotas to meet. They are kidnapping those who are easiest to get. They have deported, detained, or…
' Who cares if more of them are male or female? ' I will always call out when the patriarchy…
How disproportionate is it? https://www.statista.com/statistics/257783/estimated-number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-the-us-by-age-and-sex/ There are estimated to be slightly more men than women, but not ten times as…
Can we forget about gender for a moment and concentrate on stopping the ongoing genocide? I doubt anyone here has…
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Author Archives: Ampersand
Cartoon: Tragicomic Compromise
This cartoon was written by Rachel Swirsky, the much-awarded science fiction writer who also collaborates with me writing the scripts to the Wings of Fire graphic novels. This, by the way, is the second Shakespeare-themed cartoon Rachel and I have done together; … Continue reading
Cartoon: The Immigration Deal
Political discourse in the U.S. has become difficult, if not impossible, because right-wing views are so completely untethered from reality. I’m not saying left-wingers are immune to this – we’re not – but on the left it’s not as extreme or … Continue reading
Cartoon: Echo Echo Echo, Fox Fox Fox
There’s a timelapse video of the making of this cartoon – which shows how I began by drawing an entirely different cartoon (which I was really struggling with) before switching to this one, which even though it featured pretty much the … Continue reading
Cartoon: Personal Vehicle Arms Race
This comic was drawn by my most frequent collaborator, Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I’ve been a bike-commuter for twelve years and in that time I’ve noticed the average vehicle size getting bigger. There’s something unnerving about waiting at a red light … Continue reading
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Cartoon: Things Were So Much Better Then
This cartoon is drawn by Jenn Lee, who added so many great 1970s details! Jenn and I sometimes work sharing a table at a coffee shop, and she’d sometimes laugh aloud as she thought of more 70s details to squeeze in, … Continue reading
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Cartoon: The Criminalizing Homelessness Cycle
On Governing Magazine’s website, Thea Sebastian, Hanna Love and Tahir Duckett wrote: Criminalizing homelessness is bad financially and bad for public safety. Homelessness and incarceration have long been linked, as many people shuttle between jails, prisons, emergency rooms and the streets. … Continue reading
Ohio Passes School and College Trans Bathroom Ban
My alma mater Oberlin, and all schools and colleges in Ohio (private schools and colleges included) is going to be forced to ban trans students from using bathrooms aligned with their gender. The Ohio legislature just passed House Bill 183, … Continue reading
Cartoon: A.I. is Coming and Will Change EVERYTHING!
Another comic strip wonderfully rendered by Nadine Scholtes! I mean, who knows? Maybe years from now, A.I. really will be all that. But for now, it feels like a bunch of very wealthy people have made a strategic decision to spend … Continue reading
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Exactly Dianne. The ICE genocide is another patriarchal measure to strip women of their rights, their freedom and very often,…