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In our 2022 Spring Arts Guide, Mercury critic Joe Streckert profiled a popular Portland State University (PSU) comics project called Changing the Narrative, which collected ten stories about homelessness, and what it means to cope with food and housing insecurity. Printed as an 80-page full color comic, Changing the Narrative's print run of 4,000 copies—sold and distributed via Street Roots vendors—sold out in two weeks. There's good news: PSU instructor Kacy McKinney says the second.
Portland State University instructor Kacy McKinney has used comics to teach in her classroom, written about them academically, and made them herself. Now she's bringing local organizations together with indie artists to tell stories about homelessness, and what it means to cope with food and housing insecurity, through an 80-page full color comic. Changing the Narrative is a collaborative project headed by McKinney and made in partnership with Street Roots, the Independent Publishing Research Center,.
Changing the Narrative is a research project with a purpose. The program seeks to change the way the general public views the houseless population by creating graphic novels based on the lived experience of people who have experienced houselessness. Dr. Kacy McKinney a Portland State professor and l