Bitch Planet, Vol 1 and 2

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I had made an attempt at these a month or two ago when I first got them from the library and couldn't get into them, in an "ugh if I wanted to slog through the horrors of the carceral state it should probably at least be true stories" sort of way, but I made another attempt and this time got more into them. Dark humor is a difficult mood I guess. Although it does feel sort of quaint here in June 2018 that in this dystopian future they wait to send people to internment camps until they're adults. Anyways, Bitch Planet, it's like V for Vendetta as written by women and populated with something approximating actual incarceration demographics (so, lots of women of color, Black women specifically, trans women, etc). Volume 2, President Bitch, is up for the Hugo Graphic and will surely be on my ballot somewhere. (Okay, yes, that's clearly true. Probably somewhere in the *middle*, is what I'm implying?)