Divided image. Top panel depicts two refugees making their way over the Pyrenees in the Dead of night. Bottom panel is the author, heading home from the boxing gym, still looking for a way to connect with their great grandfather, who had a short but successful boxing career.

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   Kim Possible (kimlockhartga@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:26:36 JST Kim Possible

   @bookstodon It's Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. which is a great time to do some meaningful reflection. To that end, I picked up HEAVYWEIGHT, by Solomon J. Brager. The title is aptly chosen, in so many ways.

   It's a graphic memoir about family, identity (including trans/nonbinary), intergenerational trauma, greed, war, bigotry, eugenics, class inequality, privilege, colonial genocide, the plight of political and religious refugees, and the process of confronting personal ghosts. It involved a massive research undertaking that formed the basis of the author's dissertation. I learned so much, even though I thought I knew a lot about the historical time period. Def recommend.
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