A review by librarymouse
Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

I was really excited to start reading this book, but it took me a long time to get through. In random parts, I would find myself getting overwhelmed, but not in a bad way. Just in a way that I needed to put the book down for a little bit and think. Overall, I really enjoyed Rhea Ewing's approach to curating these interviews into a narrative that could be used to discuss the wider cultural impacts gender has. I sometimes had trouble tracking who was speaking. Each individual has a well illustrated face and each section is denoted with their name, but because the interviews were interspersed between one another and I took my time reading the book, some of the connections between sections of one interview or multiple interviews with one person weren't easy for me to see. I was often pulled into the stories they were telling and forgot to check the name in the upper left of the boxes.
I think this is a really valuable resource, but I don't think it's formatted in a way that is best for me as an individual to absorb and digest information.

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