The heart-rending autobiographical manga
Kabi Nagata is a manga artist best known for her autobiographical comic, 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 "My Lesbian Experience is doing
the work the mainstream cultures shys away from, foregrounding the
queer sexual body without fetishization, and treating queer
intimacy not as taboo, but as intrinsic to humanity. Through Kabi's
female gaze, this comic paints scenes of gentle intimacy." -- Lizzy
Lemieux, Lambda Literary
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