In October 1977, two days after his mother's death, Roland Barthes wrote a note to himself on a scrap of paper: “In the sentence ‘She's no longer suffering,’ to what, to whom, does ‘she’ refer? What does that present tense mean?”
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Sage Clemmons is a cartoonist, animator, tattooer, and community member living on occupied Abenaki land. They graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2020. In 2019 they edited and published "How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition'', and were shortlisted for the John Locher Memorial Award, which honors political and journalistic comics from young people. Their newest book, Everyone is Sorry, will be released with Parsifal Press this summer. Find them online at sageclemmons.com.
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