Literally Graphic reviewed Antifa Comic Book by Mark Bray
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4 stars
While I still don't necessarily critique the 500 years of resistance for not highlighting gender more, I did really appreciate the ways that the gender binary was at least more equally represented in anti fascist work. Especially after my initial thoughts video on Y: The Last Man, I needed to have more representation of people who ID as women as warriors.
Much like the women who participated in the anti fascist movement, it would have been very nice to have queer contributions obviously labeled. That said, we are not being completely ignored and Hill does present all the different groups that were persecuted by fascists, particularly in Germany, so we are not completely erased.
Race is obviously still pretty central to this book as it is a point that has been used in a lot of fascist oppression. Anti fascist resistance is a team sport that brings all races of …
While I still don't necessarily critique the 500 years of resistance for not highlighting gender more, I did really appreciate the ways that the gender binary was at least more equally represented in anti fascist work. Especially after my initial thoughts video on Y: The Last Man, I needed to have more representation of people who ID as women as warriors.
Much like the women who participated in the anti fascist movement, it would have been very nice to have queer contributions obviously labeled. That said, we are not being completely ignored and Hill does present all the different groups that were persecuted by fascists, particularly in Germany, so we are not completely erased.
Race is obviously still pretty central to this book as it is a point that has been used in a lot of fascist oppression. Anti fascist resistance is a team sport that brings all races of people together across our socially constructed differences
Closely related in many fascist minds, but different, one of the most interesting intersections highlighted by Hill in this book was the temporary alliance between fascist Germans and fascist Muslims. A very select group. Hill does contrast this with how much fascism is anti-muslim now, which I think is very important to note even if some people were otherwise brought together by their antisemitism.
And while class, especially as far as any given individual is concerned, is not a focus of this book class does come up in general in relation to who was generally participating in each fascist, anti fascist and hopelessly useless party in play during each time period covered.
Disability vs ability was not highlighted in this book, which is a real oversight. Unless I'm very much mistaken Hill didn't even highlight the way disabled people would have been targeted in fascist Germany. It would also have been good to highlight more accessible ways in which people resist fascism, and/or visually represent obviously disabled people in any of the crowds, especially in the end when we are in the present day.
I wish this book already had more graphic novels that related to it as while; I think it's successful at telling the overall history of anti fascist resistance, but there's a lot of room yet to tell these stories in different ways.