Nagata Kabi is a manga artist best known for her autobiographical comics My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary.
Critical acclaim for My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness: Winner
of the 2018 Harvey Award for Best Manga and the 2017 Crunchyroll
Anime Award for Best Manga, and acclaimed in Vox's top books of the
decade, The Advocate's Best LGBT Graphics Novels of 2017, the NPR
Guide to 2017's Great Reads, and the Publishers Weekly Best Books
2017. While the subject matter is by no means light, this moving
and honest slice of life will resonate with anyone who has
questioned themselves or ever been conflicted in their lives. And
let's face it: that is all of us. -- Judith Utz, Teen Vogue The
self-discovery that follows is utterly fascinating. -- Abraham
Riesman, Vulture Sheds light on the complicated emotional and
mental dynamics involved in lesbian relationships. Her story is an
open, honest, and deeply personal look at her struggles to fight
back against her eating disorder, stop self-harming, and learn more
about her sexuality. -- Ana Valens, The Mary Sue ...this is a comic
that (a) treats sex workers with dignity and agency in a medium
which has been historically unkind, (b) addresses very real themes
of self-harm in a direct and honest way, and (c) adopts an attitude
of complete acceptance of sexuality fluidity. -- Katie Skelly, The
Comics Journal My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is one of the
most powerful manga I have ever read, and it all comes down to
Nagata Kabi's openness and honesty. -- Nik Freeman, Anime News
Network No question, absolutely, my pick this week is My Lesbian
Experience with Loneliness, which was simply one of the best
autobiographical manga I've read. -- Sean Gaffney, Manga
Bookshelf
A complicated play of gender and sexual identities that Nagata
unbinds and sorts through with striking aesthetic aplomb. -- Shea
Hennum, The A. V. Club
It's impossible not to shed tears while reading this work; Nagata's
unflinching honesty is courageous, but the reason it resonates is
because it parses experiences many of her readers have, but have
never been able to give voice to. Nagata gave voice to her
experience and that has allowed her readers to realize they are not
alone. -- Hans Rollman, Pop Matters
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