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X-WR-CALNAME:Triumphs and Trials: The Journeys of Women and Queer Comics in
  Lebanon and the Arab World
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DESCRIPTION:Talk by Tracy Chahwan\n\nThis talk investigates the evolving la
 ndscape of women and LGBTQ+ comics in Lebanon and the Arab world\, focusin
 g on how marginalized creators develop visual strategies to negotiate iden
 tity\, censorship\, and socio-political instability. Through autobiographi
 cal practice and case studies\, including Samandal Comics\, Restless by Jo
 seph Kai\, Dans le Taxi by Barrack Rima\, and digital platforms like Beiru
 tByDyke\, this presentation explores comics as a hybrid feminist and queer
  archive that documents lived experience in contexts where official narrat
 ives erase or criminalize it. Special attention is given to digital circul
 ation\, alternative publishing infrastructures\, and transnational network
 s\, which enable forms of authorship\, testimony\, and community otherwise
  denied in public space. By centering artistic practice from within the re
 gion\, rather than from a theoretical distance\, this talk frames comics n
 ot only as cultural production\, but as a methodology for survival\, conne
 ction\, and collective world-building.\n\nTracy Chahwan’s work first app
 eared on the walls of Beirut as street art and posters for local independe
 nt music venues like the Beirut Groove Collective and Metro al Madina. Lat
 er\, she began working with the Lebanese experimental comics collective Sa
 mandal\, publishing anthologies and experimental magazines\, eventually pu
 blishing her graphic novel Beirut Bloody Beirut (Hachette\, 2018). After r
 elocating to the US in 2020\, she turned to journalistic comics\, collabor
 ations\, and created editorial work for major outlets\, including The New 
 Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Tracy continues to travel betwe
 en the US and the Levant\, thinking\, drawing\, and doing her best to bear
  witness to the many strange madnesses unfolding all around us.
LOCATION:Uris Hall\, G08
SUMMARY:Triumphs and Trials: The Journeys of Women and Queer Comics in Leba
 non and the Arab World
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/triumphs-and-trials
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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