Today's entry of #SJComix365 is "Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist's Encounter with Margaret Sanger" by Sabrina Jones (Soft Skull Press, 2016) Working-class nurse. Mother of three. Labor organizer. Margaret Sanger — best known as a pioneer of birth control — was revolutionary in more ways than one, whose name is not unmarried by controversy from both the right and the left. In Sabrina Jones’s graphic biography, the author illustrates an incredible life (1879–1966), framing this sequential portrait with her own personal experiences of coming of age at the height of the sexual revolution. During her lifetime, Sanger transformed herself from a working-class nurse to an exuberant free-lover and savvy manipulator of the media, the law, and wealthy supporters. Through direct action, propaganda, exile, and imprisonment, she ultimately succeeded in bringing legal access to birth control to women of all classes. Sanger’s revolutionary actions established organizations that eventually evolved into Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Sabrina Jones’s autobiographical sections of the book show her journey into activist art in response to the anti-feminist backlash of the Reagan era. From street theater and protest graphics to alternative comics, her path follows in some (if not all) of Margaret’s footsteps. ✨ #sabrinajones #softskullpress #margaretsanger #ourladyofbirthcontrol #graphicnovel #graphicbiography #graphichistory https://www.instagram.com/p/BurJJoegUUJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pz1exrvka2hl
