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I read this as single issues, and I loved the essays included with the back matter that apparently aren't in the trades? Anyway, this definitely emotionally resonated with me, and I love seeing a comic series that's doing so much intersectional feminist work. But also, it's really not the kind of thing that I would have chosen to read if it hadn't been so universally acclaimed and I probably love it sliiightly less than everyone else seems to? Like I get that it's satire of prison exploitation/b
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Non-compliant Katie was right -- this series is like Roxane Gay writing prison exploitation sci-fic, and it's just as amazing as one could hope: anti-patriarchal social commentary, smart, feminist, empowering, and all-women-embracing. If seventeen-year-old Melissa hadn't been such a prude, I would have loved to go back in time and give this to her. To be honest, I would love to see this as assigned reading for an introduction to women's studies. Delightful, asskixy, and this non-compliant can't
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I'd hesitated picking up this book for a while, after I'd over-hyped myself on Pretty Deadly, also by DeConnick, and it interfered with my first reading of that book. But then I was at The Strand, and this book was out on the featured comics table, and I decided it was about time to give it a try.
Now, this book has a lot of set up to do. It has to introduce an entire world, a good-sized cast of characters and the relationships between them, the power hierarchies of this world, and the beginnings ...more
Now, this book has a lot of set up to do. It has to introduce an entire world, a good-sized cast of characters and the relationships between them, the power hierarchies of this world, and the beginnings ...more
I've read a lot of comics, but this is the first one I've ever purchased, and I'm glad I did. I'll throw my financial support whole-heartedly behind this work, in which women who are labeled non-compliant by the men in charge of society get sent to an off-planet prison facility. Read it.
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Wow, this scared me because of how much of it is real to how our world is. We many not an off planet prison where woman go for not being "compliant" but on this planet society is doing its best to keep women in fear and shame prisons.
It is hard to read because of how real it is. ...more
It is hard to read because of how real it is. ...more
In honor of International Women's Day.
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OMG THIS IS SO GOOD.
I read this to victory-lap the 9th Cir decision upholding the injunction on the Cheeto's Muslim Ban. And this is a fun, raucous, violent thumb-in-the-eye of a comic about some very evil men and some women who are not complacent in the face of evil. It was the right book for the victory-lapping. ...more
I read this to victory-lap the 9th Cir decision upholding the injunction on the Cheeto's Muslim Ban. And this is a fun, raucous, violent thumb-in-the-eye of a comic about some very evil men and some women who are not complacent in the face of evil. It was the right book for the victory-lapping. ...more
Consider me non-compliant.
May 04, 2015
Kirstin
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Jessica Haider
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Lauren
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