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No More Prisons Bundle
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Rikers Island: From the Start
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All Cats Are Beautiful: and other thoughts
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Jan Descartes (she/her) is an artist, writer, educator, and curator, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the graduate of Syracuse University (BA), Carnegie Mellon University (MFA) and CUNY Graduate Center (MLS). She is the co-curator of Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression and Representation in Comic Art, co-creator of Heartland Comic, a collective member of Pop Gym, and a curator at Booklyn, Inc. Jan’s current art practice includes comics, zines, painting, and printing and is concerned with memory, empathy, personal subjectivity, and open accessibility. Jan facilitates comic/zine workshops and self-defense workshops. She created the online comics instructional resource Drawing Through the Walls, which support comics creation as a method to share experiences of incarceration and its damaging effects on community. Jan co-authored “Feminist Curating with Our Comics, Ourselves” in the text Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries.

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Barnard College Library

No More Prisons Bundle

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

TAKING CARE OF US: Zine Box Set

Bucknell University

Mask UpThe Booklyn Bridge #3

DePaul University

Booklyn Bridge #9Mask Up

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Mask UpThe Booklyn Bridge #4

Harvard University, Fine Arts Library