![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This powerful refrain not only sets the focus of Historia, but carries an eerie weight in a time of book censorship-books ripped from classrooms and libraries, school board members calling for book burnings-as well as the threat of of the State denying women reproductive rights, “the subjugations and abuses of not-men by men” and the women who do men’s bidding. “For the Institutions of Men Care Not for the Weal of Women“: Just in Time?Īfter a beautifully rendered introduction of Goddesses, the narrator admits, “The subjugations and abuses of not-men by men are too numerous to catalog in a library…let alone a book.” ![]() Wade, a feminist manifesto is not just in time, but essential. Occasionally calling a work a feminist read on a topic can seem reductive, or insubstantial-how many feminist reads has there been of Wonder Woman?-but in a world darkened by censorship and the looming threat of overturning women’s reproductive rights nearly 50 years after Roe v. Williams III and Kelly Thompson’s run on Black Widow-although in many ways, Historia proves to be dramatically unique. The creative team of DeConnick (writer) Jimenez (artist) Hi-Fi, Arif Prianto, and Fajardo (colorists) and Clayton Cowles (letterer) remind me of J.H. ![]()
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