WHAT'S WRONG? Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

Abrams ComicArts

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"The narratives of those marginalized by Western medicine—and how they've suffered from discriminatory medical systems—are told through watercolors and digital art in this touching collection."

- The New York Times

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"A passionate, memorably presented manifesto for healing."

- Kirkus, starred review

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“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members."

- Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

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WHAT’S WRONG? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams’s graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams’s own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like immunodeficiency, cancer, endometriosis, alcoholism, severe depression, and PTSD. 

Western medicine, which intends to cure illness and minimize pain, often causes loss, abuse, and suffering for those Americans who don’t fit within the narrow definition of who the system was built to serve—cis, white, heterosexual men. The book explores the many ways in which those receiving medical care are often overlooked, unseen, and doubted by the very clinicians who are supposed to heal them. WHAT’S WRONG? is also a beautiful celebration of nontraditional modes of healing, of how we become whole not because of healthcare but despite it.

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Read an excerpt at The Millions.

The Big Journal for Pregnant People

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This hilarious, relatable, interactive journal is the perfect companion for those nine (or ten!?) months of excitement, milestones, hormone swings, and baby/fruit size comparisons.

Right this very moment, you’re growing a tiny life in your body, and with that life-growing comes a lot of feelings—some beautiful, some exhilarating, and some straight-up ridiculous. You have a lot on your mind, and with The Big Journal for Pregnant People you can record all the ups, downs, and in-betweens. With playful prompts, brilliant quotes, pregnancy facts, straight-talking advice, and plenty of space to draw, The Big Journal for Pregnant People is a must-have for anyone who wants to take some time for themselves before that precious arrival changes, well, everything.

Most baby books are about the baby. This one is for you. Now go grab a pencil; you’ve got memories to make.

How To Take Care: An A-Z Guide Of Radical Remedies

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How to Take Care is simple but radical guidebook for anyone learning to care for themselves and others, with vibrant color illustrations.

Healing is not just for people who have their s&*t together. Healing is, most important, for people who are falling apart. How to Take Care will help you learn to trust your instincts, listen to your body, and practice small, easy steps to soothe anxiety, burnout, and symptoms of PTSD.

From A (adaptogenic herbs, ancestral healing) to Z (zoetic), How to Take Care is for anyone striving to live slowly, with self-compassion, one moment at a time. Learn tangible steps to dispel shame, tell the truth, and loosen the grip on whatever is holding you back. Sample guided meditations, cook nurturing recipes, and follow handy how-tos. Practice the grounding of a clean sink when you’d rather burn the house down, or connect with nature by growing flowers from seed. Keep this guide on your nightstand or in your backpack for easy-reference tools, techniques, and strategies to calm your nervous system and come back to your body. It is a gift for yourself or anyone else who is going through a big, messy, or trying season of life.

The Big Journal For Anxious People

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Journal your way to inner peace—or at least to feeling a little less alone in your stress, anxiety, and 3:00 a.m. doomscrolling—with this hilarious, relatable, interactive journal.

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The human body is 80 percent water, so we are basically cucumbers with anxiety (#themoreyouknow). Next time you feel a freak-out emerging, set your phone to the side—or, even better, turn it off—and reach for this journal instead. Jordan Reid and Erin Williams want you to remember that you’re in good company: Anxious people are some of the funniest and most interesting and creative humans on the planet. (They know, because they are two of them.) So if you’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made-up scenarios in your head, write them down and let them go. With hilarious prompts, brilliant quotes, mental health facts, straight-talking advice, and plenty of space to draw, The Big Journal for Anxious People is a must-have for anyone who needs a little less overthinking and a little more chill.

I Know What’s Best For You: Stories On Reproductive Freedom

McSweeney's

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Edited by Shelly Oria—author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus—this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.

Erin's comic, Women Like Me, explores how white women have, historically and presently, hindered reproductive justice for Black women, through the lens of the birth of her daughter.

COMMUTE: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

Abrams ComicArts

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An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women must make between being sexualized or being invisible

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In Commute, we follow author and illustrator Erin Williams on her daily commute to and from work, punctuated by recollections of sexual encounters as well as memories of her battle with alcoholism, addiction, and recovery. As she moves through the world navigating banal, familiar, and sometimes uncomfortable interactions with the familiar-faced strangers she sees daily, Williams weaves together a riveting collection of flashbacks. Her recollections highlight the indefinable moments when lines are crossed and a woman must ask herself if the only way to avoid being objectified is to simply cease to draw any attention to her physical being. She delves into the gray space that lives between consent and assault and tenderly explores the complexity of the shame, guilt, vulnerability, and responsibility attached to both.

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Read interviews with Erin in Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Spine, and more

The Everybody Gets Anxious Activity Book

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This thoughtful and fun activity book for children is inspired by the hysterical and hugely popular Big Activity Book for Anxious People. Written for kids or basically anyone who sometimes feels overwhelmed, angry, scared, nervous, or just plain icky—which is everyone. Really!

In this awesome, non-anxiety-inducing book, you’ll learn about where anxious feelings come from (evolution) and strategies, activities, and suggestions for how to handle them. For example, go on a scavenger hunt for comforting things around your house, or color in the rainbow of emotions! These activities are designed to help children explore their feelings in a way that helps them to understand anxiety is workable and can be transformed into something positive.

The Big Activity Book for Divorced People

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Divorce is the worst. It’s also really, really common. When marriage was invented, people did not typically live past age thirty, which made “till death do us part” more doable. Part journal, part coloring book, part hilarious and on-point advice on how to move on, The Big Activity Book for Divorced People is an outlet for anyone who wants to laugh through the pain. After all, change can be pretty great (see: evolution).

The Big Activity Book for Digital Detox

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Deep down, you know it’s true: you could benefit from disconnecting from the internet and reconnecting with the world around you. Part journal, part coloring book, part advice on how to take a break, The Big Activity Book for Digital Detox will be an outlet for anyone who wants to laugh through the ridiculousness of the digital age and remember how to be a human–because it’s definitely not going to happen when you’re awake at 1:00 a.m. reading yet another listicle.

THE BIG ACTIVITY BOOK FOR ANXIOUS PEOPLE

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These days, anxiety is simply part of the human experience. Part journal, part coloring book, part weird coping mechanisms, and part compendium of soothing facts, The Big Activity Book for Anxious People will be an outlet for anyone who wants to take a break from reality, laugh through her fears, and realize with every page that she is not alone--and to help her figure out what to do when it's 3AM and she's wide awake worrying about whether she cc'ed the right "Bob" on that email. (Probably.)

THE BIG FAT ACTIVITY BOOK FOR PREGNANT PEOPLE

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The ultimate must-have for any mom-to-be with a sense of humor: an irreverent, laugh-out-loud activity book filled with quizzes, mazes, fill-in-the-blanks, journaling pages, and hysterical musings on what pregnancy is really like.