s1e10: Reading as Resistance w/ Franchesca Lamarre

like movement and time, right? Like they all come, a lot of them come from like the 1960s, 1970s, black liberation, civil rights movement, which brings me to the next series, which is Abbott.

And I have two talking about the first one or lending books that you might never see again.

I can't find my first one.

So there are three in this series, but yeah, Who knows where she is, but we hope whatever comrade has her is enjoying her very much.

But Abbott is essentially about this investigative reporter, Elena Abbott, and it's a comic book or a graphic novel series, which is like... something that I really enjoy reading.

I like the art of it all.

And Elena Abbott is investigating crimes that were done to particularly Black boys and that police are ignoring or are a part of and ignoring during that time period.

I also like it because it's radical because it has queer love lines as well and storylines.

And someone i read a review yesterday and it was like someone's talking about abbott being a protector of black community and i just yeah it's just like a really interesting read and it's like there's like a little bit of sci-fi in it too so it's just like if you like graphic novels and you're more visual i feel like it's a good it's a good step

No, that sounds really exciting.

I really enjoy speculative fiction just because I love when I can leave a book with more questions than answers.

I think that really like the process of reading is beyond just like enjoying a story or like learning something new.

It's also how, again, we reorient how we're thinking.

And so I think just the genre of sci-fi or specifically for me, speculative fiction really opens up that awareness.

yeah yeah and I think too like there's like a lot of um history in it as well like um I wish I had the first one because I could show you there's like photos or drawings of Detroit landmarks within the graphic novel um but like based in 60s and 70s and it's just so cool as Detroiters like you're just like ha ha yes that's it

No, I think a lot of these books talk about Detroit, which I think is really

interesting.

Yeah.

No, that's a good point.

We are Detroiters.

Yeah.

We love our city.

That's all.

Yeah, like, also just being someone of Haitian descent, a lot of the books that I read, at least it's been really weird over the last, like, I would say year.

Books that I didn't even choose, just, like, the books that come up in book club, they reference Detroit and Haiti, which I think is really interesting.