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Where to Find the Second Printing of Changing the Narrative, PSU's Comics Collection about Homeless Experience - Blogtown

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. ....

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People Want to Read Changing the Narrative, PSU's Graphic Novel Comic Collection About Student Homelessness

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,. ....

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