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Sarah Mirk

Portland
As seen in: Medium, HuffPost, The Washington Post, Goodreads, NPR, The New Yorker, The Daily Dot, The Intercept, KAMU-FM (College Station, TX), Upworthy and
Covers:  relationships, history, bikes, feminism, sexuality, gender, lgbt, guantanamo, nonfiction comics
Sarah Shay Mirk! Comics + journalism. @thenib forever! Formerly of @reveal & @bitchmedia / zine-maker & author of Guantanamo Voices. She/they 🏳️‍🌈🌯🔥

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Online editor of feminist response to pop culture outlet http://BitchMedia.org. I edit all the blog posts you read on Bitch online, plus host our great podcast, and run our social media.

I generally write about gender, sexuality, and politics and am working the book Sex from Scratch—a nontraditional guide to relationships (Microcosm, 2014)—but I also write about the other many things I'm curious about, from bike riding to rodeo.

In my free time, I write and draw nonfiction comics, including …

Sarah Mirk’s Journalist Portfolio

We Have Enough Humans, Thanks.

We Have Enough Humans, Thanks.

Why Some Twentysomethings Are Redefining the Family and Nixing the Kids.

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State of Choice

State of Choice

"I'm pregnant." I'm lying. I'm in a sun-filled room just off NE Broadway, taking up a chair in a cozy house w…

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Guantanamo Voices

Guantanamo Voices

A blog covering a tour across England with a former Guantanamo Bay guard and a group of former Guantanamo det…

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Fed Up With Boy Scout's Bigotry, Portland Parents Start Alternative LGBT-Friendly Troop | Bitch M...

Fed Up With Boy Scout's Bigotry, Portland Parents Start Alternative LGBT-Friendly Troop | Bitch M...

A frustrated Portland parent starts an inclusive scouting troop for his son and friends.

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The Dead Freeway Society

The Dead Freeway Society

Scattered all over Portland are artifacts of a city that could have been. We are a city of dead freeways.

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Dan in Green Gables

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By Sarah Mirk, Terry Blas, Rey Terciero, Rebecca Barrow
| Publishers Weekly Verified
Rey Terciero, illus. by Claudia Aguirre. Penguin Workshop, $24.99 hardcover (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-38557-9; $17.99 paper ISBN 978-0-59338-558-6 After being abandoned by his mother, a queer teen endeavors to cultivate a sense of home and belonging in this tender and heartfelt graphic novel reimagining of Anne of Green Gables. Living on the road with his flighty mother, who has an alcohol dependency, forced pale-skinned 15-year-old Dan to assume adult responsibilities early in his childhood.
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Marea Verde Rising

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By Sarah Mirk, Laura Athayde
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Unstoppable Latin American activists made green the color of abortion rights – now, the U.S. needs the “green wave” more than ever. Featured in Lists: From the Color Issue
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The Suspect Detective

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By Sarah Mirk, Najib Aminy, Jenny Casas, Steven Rascon
| Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Verified
In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide unit, mostly being questioned by a detective named Philip Nordo. Nordo was a rising star in the department, known for putting in long hours and closing cases – he had a hand in convicting more than 100 people.
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