Brittle Joints Agate Lielpētere community and self-love

community and self-love

She constantly searches for security and fulfillment

Kelly Phillips

2023 (EPs originally released 2008)

by Soejima Asuka

Brittle Joints Agate Lielpētere community and self-loveBy Maria Sweeney. Published by Street Noise. Softcover, 160 pages, Colour, 2024 An evocative and heartfelt graphic memoir about the challenges of living with a progressive disability. When Maria Sweeney was young, she kept count of her broken bones. As she grew older, she stopped. Living with Bruck syndrome, a rare progressive condition that gives her very brittle bones and joint abnormalities, meant that those numbers climbed and climbed. Today she