{"id":367,"date":"2021-02-18T19:54:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/?p=367"},"modified":"2021-02-18T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:57:16","slug":"spring-2021-twitter-book-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/2021\/02\/18\/spring-2021-twitter-book-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2021 Twitter Book Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Graduate Student Caucus is pleased to announce the first GSC-sponsored Twitter Book Discussion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the past year has been extremely difficult and isolating for all of us, we at the GSC firmly believe that connection and conversation are and should be the backbone of comics studies. We know that Twitter doesn&#8217;t replicate the actual fun and messiness of an in-person conversation, but we hope to foster a discussion that is thought-provoking, fun, and tides us over until we can be in-person again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s text will be Qiana Whitted&#8217;s <em>EC Comics: Race, Shock, &amp; Social Protest<\/em> published by Rutgers University Press as a part of the Comics Culture series and winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic\/Scholarly Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversations will begin with questions crafted by members of the board of the Graduate Student Caucus, but we hope you will bring your own questions, insights, and ideas about the book as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the poster below for more information and be sure to get your copy of <em>EC Comics<\/em> and follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GSC_CSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graduate Student Caucus on Twitter<\/a> so you can read and talk with us starting <strong>Monday, March 8th<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get your copy of the book directly from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/ec-comics\/9780813566313\" target=\"_blank\">Rutgers UP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Book-Discussion-Poster-673x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-368\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Book-Discussion-Poster-673x1024.png 673w, http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Book-Discussion-Poster-197x300.png 197w, http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Book-Discussion-Poster-768x1168.png 768w, http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Book-Discussion-Poster.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Graduate Student Caucus is pleased to announce the first GSC-sponsored Twitter Book Discussion! While the past year has been extremely difficult and isolating for all of us, we at the GSC firmly believe that connection and conversation are and should be the backbone of comics studies. We know that Twitter doesn&#8217;t replicate the actual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/2021\/02\/18\/spring-2021-twitter-book-discussion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring 2021 Twitter Book Discussion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gradcaucus.comicssociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}