December 2012: Tens of thousands of people - women, men, families, young, old, rich, poor - come out onto the streets of towns and cities in India to protest the brutal gang rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi. For days and months, the protests refuse to die down. People demand change, action, commitment to the ideals of democracy and egalitarianism. And they refuse to be silenced. Soon, a new law is put in place. More and more people start to report incidents of sexual assault. New conversations, new debates begin: is violence increasing? Are we seeing more of it? Was it previously invisible? What do Indians really think about women? In this bold and brilliant collection of visual stories, fourteen young women respond to the activism and debates on the ground; they negotiate anger, fear, hope, resistance. Created in a week long workshop, these stories talk to each other as they powerfully describe the fierce determination of the writers/artists to continue the battle for change.

About the Author

Priya Kuriyan is a children's book illustrator, comic book artist and animator. Her graphic stories have appeared in Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean and Pao, and she has illustrated numerous children's books for a variety of Indian publishers. Larissa Bertonasco and Lumdilla Bartscht are graphic artists based in Hamburg and Basel respectively. They are co-founders and editors ofSpring, an all-woman graphic art and illustrated magazine.