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      10/30/22 Dominic Miller   Sonya Fix     Maia Kobabe's Talk         I found Maia Kobabe’s talk to be very interesting, as ey discussed eir struggles to come out as non-binary, and decided to create gender queer comics and start releasing them. Maia also discusses the backlash ey faced, becoming the most challenged author in America. Maia also took the viewers through the creation process of ‘Gender Queer’. Students also got the opportunity to ask various questions, one of them was “ How do you know what to leave in and out of the book? “ Maia responded, "I went back and read personal diaries from age eleven all the way up to twenty-five and made bullet points of memories that were personal, never to be seen and scary.” Maia would then take that list and extract what's relevant. The first comics of ‘Gender Queer’ were originally in black and white. After pitching the book and getting rejected Maia was told to expand it with...

        Dominic Miller          Sonya Fix         Personal Narrative          09/28/23 Brotherhood                      When I was a little boy just starting elementary school, I lived in Centerville where my only friend was my younger sister. My neighbors had kids my age, I could always hear them running around screaming and having fun but I could never actually see them because of the thick trees that separated our yards. After 1st grade was over, my family decided to move that summer 30 miles away from where we had lived, Clayton. I would spend the next decade of my life here growing up. I remember saying to my mom “ I'm not going to make any friends.”          One day early on in our new ho...