Red Rock Baby Candy Kerascoët adopting and co-opting

adopting and co-opting

” — Mardou

I used to believe that by being a bonafide alternative black girl meant that I was denying an essential part of who I am — my blackness

Based on Madeleine Flores’ popular webcomic

but cuteness is just another Darwinian survival strategy here

Red Rock Baby Candy Kerascoët adopting and co-optingBy Shira Spector. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 216 pages, Colour, 2021. Self described as "an infertile, high femme, low income, non biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen, and ectopic pregnancy survivor," the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir. Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant, the emotional turmoil