Review of 'The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance To Ecocide' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A political cartoonist since high school, Stephanie McMillan is a 2nd generation Fort Lauderdale resident whose work has now been shown internationally, with an archive of her original and papers at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Ohio State University. A multimedia artist, according to her website, McMillan offers classes with her partner Chistopher Burns.
Moving along to the actual plot of the book itself, basically we follow a dynamic group of friends as they resist ecocide. Lots of direct action and black block tactics with a dash of will they sell out and/or liberal vs leftest tension. What, if anything, will save the planet? All options are on the table.
While I overall can appreciate this book, more as time goes by, it's still one of those books where the text is dense enough to trigger my ADHD impatience with TEXT. The whimsical elements, like the pyromaniac rabbit with …
A political cartoonist since high school, Stephanie McMillan is a 2nd generation Fort Lauderdale resident whose work has now been shown internationally, with an archive of her original and papers at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Ohio State University. A multimedia artist, according to her website, McMillan offers classes with her partner Chistopher Burns.
Moving along to the actual plot of the book itself, basically we follow a dynamic group of friends as they resist ecocide. Lots of direct action and black block tactics with a dash of will they sell out and/or liberal vs leftest tension. What, if anything, will save the planet? All options are on the table.
While I overall can appreciate this book, more as time goes by, it's still one of those books where the text is dense enough to trigger my ADHD impatience with TEXT. The whimsical elements, like the pyromaniac rabbit with one eye, do help to balance out the existential dread.
While, if I'm recalling correctly, we don't touch on gender/ability diversity/commentary we do see representation of several bipoc characters, two of the guys are gay, and there's a lot of class tension happening throughout the story.