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Death Threat
By Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Acclaimed artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya’s responses to them to startling life in Death Threat, a comic book that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Using satire and surrealism, Death Threat is an unflinching portrayal of violent harassment from the perspective of both the perpetrator and the target, illustrating the dangers of online accessibility, and the ease with which vitriolic hatred can be spread digitally.
Author
Vivek Shraya
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel.” She is the founder of the award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books that supports emerging BIPOC writers. A seven-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Shraya lives in Treaty 7 territory, where she is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have read one of Vivek Shraya's poetry books in the past so thought I would give another one of her works a go. This is a short comic book that details an experience the author had with a series of transphobic emails from someone she didn't know.
Ness Lee's illustration style brought this to life. The portraits of Vivek looked realistic enough while the overall style was very cartoon-like and modern. The fact that this was based in reality, Vivek didn't have to use many words to bring the story to life. Some pages are made up on just images while others show the emails that were received and some other conversations had by the author.
This is a short read but one that I think is rooted in the internet age and is an example of a transgender woman standing up to online bullies that could be really powerful to readers.
3 out of 5 stars!
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