awesome! I have Menopause (the book and the thingy, too LOL)

I don't have that book on Menopause yet, but it's ordered

my little snail queen!!!!!

I am thinking of yet another image that came to mind as you were speaking: Verwicklungen and das verwickelte Subjekt, the implicated subject, being involved in history in a layered and sometimes hidden way that places us in structures we have not necessarily created but are nonetheless caught in.

This is so beautiful, Maureen! Can you speak to the bird at the end of the prologue? It's a swallow, or? And don't swallows often return home? So there's both liberation and promise of return, or perhaps flight to a new home?

Please- can the screen share be enlarged?

yes thank you!

beautiful!

I am viewing on a desktop and it is very clear and easy to see

A question for Maureen: Could you say a little more about why you don’t use the word “closure” any more? I’m wondering what underlies your view?

I am sorry I must go, too tired, but it was wonderful to get a glimpse into your work. Thank you!

wow that is gorgeous

This discussion of the harmful nature of the ‘bird’s-eye view” is great: it reminds me of the distinction Bruno Latour makes in his later work between a “terrestrial” view of the globe and the understanding of Gaia / earth as something we are all INSIDE of. Seems to me that Maureen’s Queen of Snails really does have a Gaian view of earth and all her creatures.

exhilarating and enthralling words and pictures, Maureen. can’t wait for my copy to arrive! Burdens/Birdens

I'm sorry, I have to leave - thanks for the fascinating insights, Maureen!

Interesting that pigs are thought of in a negative fashion and are often used as taunts and slurs. They are highly intelligent creatures. Says more about humans than about pigs.

Maureen, your work is amazing and connects to a body of work of other German women grappling with how they are implicated in a his/story at large that embraces them with exculpatory silences. I am struck by the fact that the seemingly clear “boundaries” of a memoire have recently become expansive in so many ways. I have just taught Nora Krug’s “Heimat. Ein deutsches Familienalbum” (other graphic novel) and written a book on recollections of Nazi Germany from the perspective of a child. It seems that for our generation implication in a much larger transnational history of perpetration and domination. The question seems to have become how we carry wounds inflicted to us in indirect ways into the present and beyond. Sorry, less a question than a comment.

Maureen! Forgive me if this was already mentioned, i had the wrong start time for the event obviously. Anyhow, I think we talked about this while you were writing the book but I don’t remember, did you have the chance to show the work to your mother and other living relatives and if so what was her reaction to it, and also, are you familiar with Sabine Bode’s ‘Die Vergessene Generation’ and “Kriegsenkel”, which talk about the experience of children of WWII Germans?

Thank you, everyone! What an interesting discussion of a magnificent book. Much appreciated! I need to sign off now but I am sending warmest and best wishes.

Thanks so much for the introduction to a beautiful and evocative book!

Maureen, do you think there is something about the graphic medium (rather than prose) that made the work of revealing such vulnerabilities somehow manageable and bearable for you emotionally—or did it make it more difficult?

Thanks Elizabeth and Sven-Eric for organizing this. And of course: lots of thanks to Maureen.

It’s been a treat to hear you speak and gain so much more context ahead of receiving my copy of the book. Your work is beautiful, and your story is so important and inspiring. I’ve struggled with telling my stories and I really appreciate your work. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your process with us.

This has been such a rich discussion. Thank you all so much, and thank you Maureen for creating this fabulous book.

Congrats, Maureen!!!!

Thanks all! Lovely discussion!

Maureen, Congratulations! You have created a masterful work!