Author Biography

Nora Borre

Nora Borre (she/they) is a White trans disabled artist, organizer, and educator living in Austin, Texas. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in the Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research links theory and practice by developing connections between trans liberation, youth liberation, and disability justice using embodied storytelling. She is also interested in archives as sites to both construct and to challenge history. Her work in the world centers around popular education and using theatre for social change.

Farra Yasin

Farra Yasin is a comic artist and a language arts teacher who currently works as an assistant professor for the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg in Canada. For Yasin, comic writing is a critical literacy practice that uses the narratives of gesture and visual symbolism as a means of humanization. The docu-comic allows one to challenge oppressive discourses by working with writers to tell the stories of joy and uniqueness of the wonderful people of this Earth. She uses traditional hand drawn techniques for drafting magic realist images to express the relations between past, memory, and context.