Lis Pfeiffer

Researching comics journalism. Comics scholar. College prof, mom, comics PhD student @memorialu She/her, bipride🏳️‍🌈 anti-racist ♥️

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56. https://t.co/WQWxavBm5l

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

Mother is mothering.

Madonna’s Met Gala look is inspired by Leonora Carrington, an artist who ghosted the patriarchy and painted worlds where women run everything.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️

Read more at Fight for the Future 👇
https://t.co/xZKCrJuyZs

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@doctorow @maddow

[rowan⁷⁷ @dachology]

astronaut jeremy hansen talking about what his indigenous mentors taught him about the moon 🥲🥲

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

@Babsfavorite Yikes, 80s to 2000s comics aesthetic—“thanks” Michael Turner 👎🏻

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

@DevEthos Yes!! The Chatham First Baptist Church (where John Brown met Canadians who joined his fight) and the Dawn Settlement in Dresden, Ontario where Josiah Henson settled are incredible sights!

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

ICE out of Canada and no Canadian support for ICE. Sign Canadian MP Heather McPherson's petition to ban funding to Canadian companies working with ICE, ban goods destined to ICE and revoke permission for ICE in Canada. I signed. @HMcPhersonNDP
https://t.co/h7OPSKjTaj

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

And now we’re at the journalists arrested for reporting the news stage

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Attorney for my colleague and friend Don Lemon has released a statement saying Don was arrested by federal agents in LA last night. This is outrageous and cannot stand. The First Amendment is under attack in America!

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is deeply concerned by a dangerous and accelerating pattern within the United States government in which rhetoric and symbolism associated with Nazi ideology and white supremacist extremism is increasingly given political legitimacy. Entire government agencies, especially the Department of Homeland Security, as well as senior officials and other influential actors now regularly tolerate and even echo language and imagery historically rooted in Nazism and genocidal movements, eroding democratic norms and cultivating an environment that actively drives extremist mobilization and politically driven violence.

The Lemkin Institute recognizes that the Trump Administration is unlikely to engage in any actions that would begin to limit and contain the growing power and violence of extremist groups because the Administration is, apparently, in the hands of people sympathetic to those groups. We remind President Trump, his advisors, and the foot soldiers of genocide in ICE and CBP that totalitarian supremacist projects never end well for the perpetrators.

We call upon U.S. government officials and U.S. political representatives who do not wish to be complicit in fascism and genocide to take immediate measures to identify, address and dismantle Nazi and white supremacist ideology within the U.S. government, with the long-term goal of transforming the nation towards a more just, positive, and sustainable social order.

We salute the Americans who are courageously showing up to protest the rapid radicalization of the U.S. state towards totalitarianism and genocide. All protest in the U.S. today is also genocide prevention work. Humanity will one day recognize the value and the heroism of people standing up and risking their lives every day. Read full statement here: https://t.co/TDklu6UR65

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

@RodKahx Dude, no. Canadians in the past (Underground Railroad, assisting John Brown, protecting Vietnam draft dodgers) helped Americans in need. This is not the way.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

If the identities of your police are allowed to be secret then you have secret police

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

47 days of training AND given lethal weapons; a journalism degree is 4 years

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

ICE agents only receive 47 days of academy training — The Atlantic

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

Greg Rucka & Kate together again 😍

[DCU Updates @dcuworld]

DC has announced Batwoman by Greg Rucka & Dani. It debuts on March 11!

"But since she was 10 years old, Kate Kane has lived in the shadow of a prophecy and the machinations of a religion devoted to the end of all things. How do you fight the devil when the devil is real? And how do you win?"

Via:(https://t.co/TmjruZRaz6)

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

@CAComixPod Yup, we discuss this in one of my courses on deconstructing the superhero, and we do it when we examine Gene Luen Yang’s “Superman Smashes the Klan” (a comic adaptation of the 1947 radio show “Superman v the Clan of the Fiery Cross)

[Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold]

This is an INCREDIBLE investigative story, reported in the form of a graphic novel. Arrested by phone - a true story.

A must read

https://t.co/k6njyDVc0G

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

@imbethmccoll Insane asf that “if your image looks good, I’ll think you’re lying” when photography has been upheld for so long as a bastion of truth-telling (and my heart hurts for photogs trying to make a living). We can’t hate it enough!

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

Look at these beautiful stamps issued by Canada Post yesterday celebrating Canadian comic creators: Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley & Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas !!

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

@juliet_turner6 LMAO the cope is real; working on my PhD & have 2 kids—because women are amazing (also, women shouldn’t ever have to justify not having kids!!!)

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

Love this celebration of educated women! Graduated with my masters on the sci-fi comic series “Bitch Planet” (are we living there now?) in 2022 after having my second baby, and am now working on my PhD

[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

“just look at the degree on that chick”

[Lis Pfeiffer @_Georgethecat]

@DrAllyLouks Can’t wait to get my PhD (in comics!! 🤗) and get this reaction!