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Tahneer Oksman

Brooklyn, New York
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Professor; freelance writer; freelance editor; reviewer, memoir, comics & graphic novels for @npr @wapo & others; illustration by @lianafinck
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'Opting Out' is a graphic novel of 7th grade survival from the author of 'Gender Queer'

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By Tahneer Oksman
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In an important scene in the new middle-grade graphic novel Opting Out, 12-year-old Saachi's father is giving her a pep talk: "You don't start off good at something. You get better and better until it changes! Then the cycle repeats." Saachi is having a hard time in seventh grade, though neither of her parents have a clear sense of exactly what is going on.
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