Radical politics, solidarity, and a
dogged pursuit for a better tomorrow links the first-hand accounts in
We Are Many: Defending
Women and Sex Worker Human Rights.
With a varied political and aesthetic sensibility, and an equal
partnership between comic artists and human rights defenders, the
anthology features profiles, reports, testimonies, and voices from
the frontlines of Ukraine, Mexico, Sudan, Lebanon, Tonga, and more. A
rough, energetic illustration of a sex workers’ collective fighting
for legalization in Australia sits alongside a spunky collage of a
trans woman rapping about empowerment in Brazil. The muslim women of
Sri Lanka speak alongside the voices of unnamed feminists in Iraq.
The cause of women’s rights even unites the warring nations of
Armenia and Azerbaijan.
A
Cypher Comics anthology curated by Beldan Sezen and Adam Shapiro, We
Are Many presents comics
as eyewitnesses to grassroots justice movements.
