Aubrey Hirsch

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Aubrey Hirsch is a writer and illustrator from Cleveland, Ohio, who has published personal essays and comics in the New York Times, Time Magazine , Vox , The Nib , and elsewhere. [1] [2] [3] [4] She published a short story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar, in 2013, and her essays and stories have been published in anthologies and collections, including Roxane Gay's Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, and Pittsburgh Noir. [5] [6] [7] Hirsch is a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Creative Writing and a 2022 Sustainable Arts Foundation award winner for graphic memoir. [8] [9] [10]

Hirsch's essays and comics explore gender equality, parenting, sexuality, friendship, public health, and other social equity issues. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] She has written about being subjected to threats and internet harassment because of her public feminism and advocacy for marginalized communities. [21] [22] [23]

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  16. Brabaw, Kasandra. "This Comic Nails The Truth About Women's Experience With Doctors". www.refinery29.com.
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