Tillie Walden Clementine: Book 1
Who gets a childhood?
What do we build from? What does the future look like (for Walden?) What should be left behind?
What's "queer" about this graphic novel/comic?
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Amos's death, the vengeance, and the PLANNING
the rage and tactical planning of girlhood
"I was waiting for Lee
Let's show Amos the plane one more time
the specters of family "I'm sorry mom" with Olivia - what do we do with the nuclear fa
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what's lost/gained in framing childhood/girlhood through trauma and loss? (pg 173 at start of chapter 8)
how does this participate in "female rage" genre (films like I tonya, Black Swan) a way of organizing an aesthetic around trauma and sadness that lashes out--*
creating a space of feminine rage for girls of color
in a scary world where you don't get to be kids cause survival: gun violence in schools;
frameworks of "love"-- built on control, domination, territory. This logic is authorized by the frames of bio-family/nuclear family;
Amos's stability and safetty (tied to maleness, tied to whiteness)
keying in on a particular GENDERED and RACIALIZED precarity created by disproportionate vectors of violence
"it's an adventure" and the luxury on innocence
helps reaffirm the perspectives of girls of color
Clem's period (no resources, no way to track, the politics of blood in
the logics of security and family security (for the white hetero nuclear family)
the animation of transformation and leaving biocentric notions of human behind; graphic novels have a grammar for visualizing politics
breaking through lines and linear structures, plotting, and thinking against heteronormative time