Refuge
About this comic
The disconnect between the “inside” of hospital nursing during COVID—budget cuts, patient isolation, the pressures of under-staffing—and the “outside” of care—the Black Lives Matter protests, the work of street medics, the urgency of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest—expose, for one nurse, “the contradiction that was always there about what care work can be and what it is in a hospital setting.”
Artist
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, a native of Eastern North Carolina, holds a Ph.D. in Art Education and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Florida State University. She was a Professor of Gender Women’s and Sexuality Studies and Studio Art at the University of Iowa from 1999-2022. Currently, she is the dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the UNC School of The Arts in North Carolina. Her work appears in Southern Cultures, Meridians, the Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Feminist Studies, and Visual Arts Research. She is also the author of Teaching the Arts Behind Bars (Northeastern U. Press, 2003) Elegy for Mary Turner (Verso Press, 2021), and Run Home If You Don’t Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943 (UNC Press/Duke Center for Documentary Studies, 2021).
Storyteller
Sara Yinling Post
Sara is a Chinese and Jewish nurse living on the Olympic Peninsula in WA and currently travel nursing in Pittsburgh PA. She is passionate about understanding the medical system through as many lenses as possible, including through comics!
