{"id":59,"date":"2009-11-12T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T16:42:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-26T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:29:02","slug":"just_so_you_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/just_so_you_know\/","title":{"rendered":"Just So You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sayers, Joey Alison. Just So You Know.<\/em> Autobiographical Comics Ser. #1. Oakland, 2009. softcover. [36] pages. $5.00.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cartoonist Joey Alison Sayers has the talent\u2014critical in comic art\u2014for getting to a point quickly and making a sharply perceptive observation.<\/p>\n

Just So You Know #1<\/em> gathers together two years of strips about Sayers’ transition from male to female. Hormones, social acceptance, getting a new ID, and coming out to herself and her parents are all dissected on Sayers’ drawing pad. The most poignant strip may be “Freaking Out the Parents.” At a particularly illuminating point in a conversation with her parents, Sayers explains, “I’ve been horribly depressed for as long as I can remember and for a bunch of years I was getting drunk and using drugs as a coping mechanism.” Her parents listen to everything in silence, wearing twin expressions of concern. Their response comes in the last panel: “Wait?! You did drugs?!!” It’s a bittersweet moment.<\/p>\n

They aren’t hurling invective, which is good, but they can’t acknowledge what their child is really sharing, and only react to a side issue. Additionally, Sayers slips in some basic facts about the MTF transition process, which is helpful for any library collection. The final page even includes a small glossary to help readers understand, for example, the difference between transgender and transsexual.<\/p>\n

Just So You Know #1<\/em> is recommended for public and high school libraries. It’s available online through Sayers’ website<\/a>. Payment is through PayPal.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by, Ruth Ann Jones<\/strong><\/em>
\n Special Collections Cataloger<\/em>
\n Michigan State University Libraries<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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