“What I love about this resource as a facilitating dialogue tool is I see these two extremes that show up when you’re trying to organize dialogue around equity and justice: (1) we’re looking at data and the conversation ends up being this stunted formal “let’s interpret the numbers” and people’s lived stories and experiences end up getting left out and sanitized because it becomes this conversation about numbers and percentages, and (2) you come in and ask people to tell their stories as a way to bring in lived experiences, and it ends up being this traumatic thing where the learning has to happen as a result of someone having to spill and explain themselves. And this comic offers something in between, it is a telling of a story based on curated choices using data, theories, and lived experiences… and it can be a tool where I can show it to people who are able to speak on lived experiences without requiring them to share their own trauma. It facilitated bringing up stuff without it having to be excavated and extractive in the dialogue”