“I think there is something powerful about the visual component of scholarly findings that seems less intimidating. We associate comics and cartoons with something lighter and you can dive into more difficult topics that can serve to ignite conversations with people. To read the comic and read the article together is an entry point to understanding complex ideas for all populations, all grade levels, and breaks the tradition of academia always needing to produce an article to explain complex things. The articles [Josephine] wrote and the ways that they were transformed into the comics really could serve people trying to look at ways to talk about power oppression, antiracism in ways that don’t default to academia or maybe getting defensive, and just talking about your feelings absent of theory. It allows us to collaborate together, and think about these ideas in ways that tell a story, and actually tell someone’s story in its full truth”