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Though no one in the group has taught this particular text, we discussed some of the ways we might approach this or similar kinds of narratives, especially with students who aren’t too far removed from their own teenage years. We generally agreed that “trigger warnings” aren’t an adequate response to the challenges of teaching difficult, but necessary subject matter, but deciding how to approach such material depends a great deal on the context of particular classrooms, audiences, and pedagogical approaches. We’d welcome thoughts or ideas on any of these topics in the comments below.<\/p>\r\n
For those who are interested, the book is still on 3-day reserve at the Willis Library, though it will be returned to the general collection at the end of this semester.\u00a0 UNT faculty and students can also stream\u00a0the film version.<\/a><\/p>\r\n Our next meeting\u00a0 will be on a Wednesday, December 18, from 4-5:30 p.m.,<\/strong> at Miss Angeline\u2019s House of Fine Taste<\/a>. Hopefully, this will allow some of those who can\u2019t usually make it on weekends to join\u00a0us.<\/p>\r\n The\u00a0text we\u2019ve chosen for that meeting is Gender Queer: A Memoir<\/a> by Maia Kobabe.\u00a0\u00a0There is a copy available on 3-day reserve at the Willis Library, under \u201cComics Studies Reading Group\u201d.<\/p>\r\n Other topics we discussed at the last meeting were the possibility of organizing a comics panel for the Spring UNT Postwar Faculty Colloquium, and possibly contributing to an Open Access book on “teaching comics”. If you’re interested in either of these, please come to our next reading group meeting, or drop a note to:\u00a0\u00a0john.martin@unt.edu<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After an interval this summer and a couple of postponements due to scheduling conflicts, the Comics Studies Reading Group started back up in November with a discussion of\u00a0Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner.Our conversation\u00a0was pretty wide-ranging, but touched on issues of teenage sexuality, sexual abuse, diaries & confessional writing, the interplay between text… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[47,37,19,46],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-reading-group","tag-comics-and-sexuality","tag-comics-reading-group","tag-comics-studies","tag-teaching-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9noXX-69","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":413,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/comics\/2019\/12\/19\/comics-studies-happenings-fall-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":381,"position":0},"title":"Comics Studies Happenings, Fall 2019","author":"John","date":"December 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This Fall has been a busy one for many of our Comics Studies Reading Group members, who have been reading, teaching, reviewing, and writing about comics and graphic novels, among other things. 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