I love that we've finally got a good manga about asexuality. I often struggle with manga because they tend to include very big and harmful stereotypes I love that we've finally got a good manga about asexuality. I often struggle with manga because they tend to include very big and harmful stereotypes about queer people and about the relationships between men and women, it is SO patriarcal it annoys me so much (maybe it's Japanese culture?). And yeah, Is Love The Answer still had a lot of these outdated representations, but it actually manages to introduce asexuality quite well. Aromanticism could be developed a little more, and Q in LGBQT+ does NOT been questioning but queer! But other than that we get quite a lot of talks about asexuality, from different perspectives. It's a coming-of-age, and a coming-of-ace story that will be so helpful to many ace people out there. And the best part is that our ace MC, who feels broken and lost at the beginning, finds a home, friends who understand her, and is happy and proud of herself.
Blessings follows two POVs: Obiefuna's, a gay teenager coming of age in Nigeria, where queer relationships are on the verge of being criminalised, andBlessings follows two POVs: Obiefuna's, a gay teenager coming of age in Nigeria, where queer relationships are on the verge of being criminalised, and his mother's, who has to deal with her son being sent away to boarding school after his father catches him with another man. Blessings can be a very tough read, but it also feels essential that it is told and read. It is also comforting in a way, to see Obiefuna find his place with people he can trust.
Bon j'étais impatiente d'avoir enfin une BD qui parle spécifiquement de la dépression et de l'anxiété (troubles que je connais bien... par expérience)Bon j'étais impatiente d'avoir enfin une BD qui parle spécifiquement de la dépression et de l'anxiété (troubles que je connais bien... par expérience) mais c'était une bonne déception. L'histoire en elle même nous montre des tous petits bouts des angoisses de Clément mais par assez / pas assez bien pour qu'on puisse vraiment comprendre ce qu'il ressent ou subit. Mettre deux pages à la fin où l'auteur essaie (je dis essaie car ça reste très très synthétique et ne relate qu'une seule expérience) de présenter un peu mieux les troubles, ne résoud pas tout. Fallait qu'on comprenne tout ça DANS l'histoire. La soit disant représentation des angoisses par un ectoplasme qui se croit drôle, c'est surfait et surtout, ici, c'est mal fait... Les dialogues......more
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