Mad About Mills

The Mills Revolution was not televised this time.

My first published book, Inside the Mills Revolution, was a collection of cartoons I drew during the 1990 student strike at Mills College. Over the years people interviewed me a lot about it, but I didn't feel like an expert at all…someone else had made it all happen. I wasn’t a student; I just observed. With a pencil.

That event was historic – the first time any women's college had reversed the decision to go co-ed. And now it’s ancient history. Now all Liberal Arts colleges are in danger of going the way of women’s colleges.

When Mills had its last crisis of existence, I went back into observe mode. My new book, Mad About Mills: The Memes That Made No Difference, came out just in time for the 2nd Reunion of the Mills Afterlife. It’s the collection of cartoons I whipped up for Save Mills/All4Mills/AAMC/etc. aka The Mills Rebel Alliance. And some choice words: Anger. Arguments. Alliance. Aftermath.

You can get the new Mills bookie on Lulu.

It was really fun being at Mills, btw, it always is. (You don’t have to call it Northeastern Oakland Campus.)

At the annual Writers Salon, the humor and humanity flowed, and we all glowed with Mills magic. (Or maybe my lens needed cleaning?)

Sheryl Bize-Boutte, Moya Stone, Anne Gordon Perry, Eleanor Vincent, Micheline ??, Susan Ito, Audrey Ferber, and Moi.

I read my personal essay In My Grief I Tip Chairs, and it felt really good to say my feelings out loud to my community.

Welcome to my new subscribers from that day!

Some of you asked for strike T-shirt reprints: Grab one here! And I promised all of you who signed up a free download of Inside the Mills Revolution. You can get it on my website or download with one quick click right here. It’s also the last chapter of Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career.

$upporting $ubscribers ($5/month or $30/year) can just scroll down to see the cartoon collection, which won the Bay Guardian Cartoon Contest in 1990 and empowered me to print some copies up to get banned from the bookstore! (But that’s another story.)