MOTHER LOAD: Lacunae, an Elegy for My Mother, Part III — by Lisa Wilde
To be continued…
I think the hardest part of my teenage years was the silence. As you can see in the drawings, by that point I was not allowing anyone in. I see this protection in a number of my students, and—as an adult—the challenge is to help someone feel safe to opening up.
Lacunae: Elegy For My Mother will be serialized over five parts, weekly, on MUTHA Magazine. Read the first chapters here and follow MUTHA for future installments.
About the Author
Lisa Wilde is an artist, writer and teacher. Her graphic book—Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High School (Microcosm Publishing, 2015) was called a “notable comic” by Bill Kartalopoulos in Best American Comics. Lisa’s second graphic book, Lacunae, was serialized at Muthamagazine.com in 2016. Her zine, Yo, Miss #6: Changes—Vengeance, Trump and the Eumenides was short-listed for Broken Pencil’s 2018 zine awards. She is a fellow of the Academy for Teachers.
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