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Candida Rifkind

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Professor of comic books & Canadian Literature at University of Winnipeg. Writing about refugee & migrant comics, architectural imagination in comics, Canadian auto/bio.

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Delighted that Graphic Refuge won this year’s Comics Studies Society book prize and that it’s already informing reading lists and teach-ins against the anti-migrant forces all around us. @crifkind.bsky.social & I are indebted to critical refugee studies & to Vinh Nguyen who wrote an amazing foreword
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The transactional — and optimizable — connections of ‘cozy video games’ theconversation.com/the-transact...
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The transactional — and optimizable — connections of ‘cozy video games’
“Cozy gaming” offers emotional comfort, community and a sense of control through low-stakes, repetitive play. It also features worlds where relationships are transactional.
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
obsessed with this article
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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com · 11/03/2026
New in the journal! Precup, M., (2026) “Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies cc @wlupress.bsky.social
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Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of <em>Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics</em>
This review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-written by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, with a preface by Vinh Nguyen (2025), places the book in the wider political ...
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Had two of these emails last week
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Can we take a minute to appreciate this guy's perfect peemanship?
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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com · 02/02/2026
New in the journal! Mickwitz, N., (2026) “On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies powered by @openlibhums.org; @janewayolh.bsky.social
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On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics
This review of the book Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics (2025), co-authored by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, provides an overview of the key conceptual framing and inter...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 29/01/2026
There’s so much need in Minnesota right now. Businesses are closing and rent is due soon. If you want to help people here, there are links to rent relief & other vetted mutual aid funds on standwithminnesota.com. Please boost and donate what you can. Thank you 🫶🏻
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 25/01/2026
Time to spend one zillion dollars at DreamHaven Books!!! I buy almost all my new giant art books and pulpy used books from them. Also I secretly sign books there whenever I stop in for a treat.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/01/2026
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy.
Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie.

I'm still learning how to understand her.

Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo?
Do you need to do a widdle piddle?

Minnie: Arf!

*I just call her "little baby" most of the time.

I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now.
Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy.
Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now.

Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport. I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers.

I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless.
The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective.

I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition.
ICE will pick up anybody.

I know that.

So I tucked my passport away.

And I largely avoid leaving my house.I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too.
And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized.
We'll do our best to get through this.

Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16/01/2026
Comics friends! Please look at what @trungles.com and a bunch of other comics people are doing and join in! #IceOutComics
ICE OUT
Cartoonists against ICE
Calling on cartoonists and artists to tell your stories about the ICE occupation of your towns and cities!

*4-panel comics*
*3:4 Instagram format*
Use this Blue: *There is a color drop block of blue to copy *

Use these hashtags:
#iceout[your city]
#iceoutmpls
#iceoutcomics
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WORKER19 @blogwood.com · 10/01/2026
She is the only public university professor in Florida to remain on leave over her comments, which have now prohibited her from teaching for a full academic year: FAU professor, suspended over Charlie Kirk comments, will not be reinstated ahead of spring semester www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/01/09/f...
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FAU professor, suspended over Charlie Kirk comments, will not be reinstated ahead of spring semester
Florida Atlantic University professor Kate Polak, placed on leave in September over social media comments she made about Charlie Kirk, will remain suspended heading into the spring semester.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Another perfect diagram of Sunday evening/Monday morning vibes by Jill McDonald from a 1968 Puffin Post
A cartoon drawing of two puffins in black ink on white paper in which the left hand puffin appears to be doing some kind of surgery on the right hand puffin, either spelunking it its guts with forceps or drawing out some viscera with its wing, it’s not entirely clear but it has a speech bubble saying ugh and the other has a speech bubble saying ouch
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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 14/12/2025
What? NOOOOOOOOOOO. The mass market paperback is the best kind of book! This sucks, and suggests physical books are going to become an expensive prestige thing like vinyl records. Ereaders are fragile and centrally controlled. Paper books are just better.
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Tiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hot reminder that applications for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant are OPEN! If you're a comics critic, please apply! forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
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2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
They died because they were women. December 6, 1989. National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
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Larissa @purlgurly.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️
Girl Guides of Canada

Inclusion makes Girl Guides of Canada stronger. It ensures that girls and youth have a place to build confidence, develop the skills to thrive and connect with a community that sees them for who they truly are.

Girl Guides of Canada welcomes all girls - cisgender and transgender - as well as non-binary people who are comfortable in spaces that focus on and are driven by the experience of girls.

Learn more about our commitment to inclusivity and accessibility at girlguides.ca/inclusivityGirl Guides logo with a trans flag ribbon in one corner.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 03/12/2025
My parents and my aunties are currently traveling abroad to visit family, and I’m making them text me their whole way there and while they travel back just in case, and you’re out here with your little Spotify Wrapped, like they didn’t just double down on doing business with ICE.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 03/12/2025
Stop using Spotify oh my GOD
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is so good!
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Such a beautiful essay about lost family memories
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 28,1963
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER 
P1- NANCY IS PUTTING ON HER COAT AS SHE LISTENS TO THE RADIO…

RADIO ANNOUNCER: AVOID FLU GERMS---NEVER SIT NEXT TO ANYONE WITH A COLD

P2- WE SEE THAT NANCY IS GOING TO THE THEATRE, BUT SHE IS CARRYING A LARGE SACK ON HER BACK

P3- NANCY IS SITTING IN A THEATER SEAT AND ON EACH SIDE OF HER SHE HAS DOLLS AND STUFFED ANIMALS IN THE THEATER SEATS
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
The cover of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind includes a panel from a graphic novel.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 17/11/2025
This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge
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Graphic Refuge: Panel Discussion on Comics and Migration
I’m participating in the Graphic Refuge book panel event with Dr Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind on 19th of November, at 5pm [UK time], at City St. George’s University of London.
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Oh wow this will be so good for teaching a book my students already love
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
NEW: No Arms In The Arts launches boycott of the Scotiabank Photo Award. 70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations. boycottphotoaward.org
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Taking the Cats for a Ride, Central Park, New York, March 20, 1976 by Barbara Alper www.instagram.com/balper_nyc/
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Excuse me, @theguardian.com, I'd like to report an error in your headline; this should read "James D Watson, who co-discovered Rosalind Franklin's notebook showing her discovery of DNA's twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks
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Elisha Dacey 🎤🏳️‍⚧️ @elishadacey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The most important part of today's #federalbudget2025: Canada joining Eurovision!
Budget 2025 proposes to provide $150 million in 2025-26 for CBC/RadioCanada to strengthen its mandate to serve the public and to better reflect the needs of Canadians. The government will explore modernising CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate to strengthen independence, and is working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in Eurovision.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Excited for this hybrid launch of Graphic Refuge with my co-author @crifkind.bsky.social and colleague @ernestopriego. Join us on 19 Nov for a discussion of the way comics intervene in our anti-migrant visual culture with relations of refuge. And some beautiful pictures of some beautiful comics!
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 23/10/2025
Co-authored by @drdomdavies.bsky.social and @crifkind.bsky.social, Graphic Refuge (@wlupress.bsky.social 2025) explores graphic narratives about a range of refugee experiences. You're invited to a panel event to celebrate the book: www.hcid.city/news/graphic...
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Graphic Refuge Panel Event - 19th November
You are invited to the Graphic Refuge panel event with Dr. Dominic Davies and Dr Candida Rifkind
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 18/10/2025
If you're teaching in a classroom and you use the chalkboard/whiteboard, you erase that board after class before you leave
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 17/10/2025
Looking forward to participating in MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event with authors @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social and fellow respondent Mihaela Precup www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... (19 November 2025 5pm) #ComicsStudies
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MCCI's Connect: Graphic Refuge panel event | City St George's, University of London
Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I like Kneecap's response.
Tweet from Kneecap responding to Vince GasparroMessage to Gasparro calling him a liar and a zunt.Message to fans in Canada: we've played Canada many times but your government is made up of genocidal cunts, sorry.
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Nice one @theguardian.com front page & Carol Ann Duffy ❤️. 
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Candida Rifkind @crifkind.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Thanks @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me and @drdomdavies.bsky.social to talk about our new co-authored book exploring how comics can document & disrupt dominant images of war & forced displacement @wlupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/graphic-refuge
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Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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The History of Marc Maron’s ‘WTF’ Podcast Will Be Preserved in a Very Unconventional Way
Marc Maron's 'WTF' podcast history will be told in the form of a graphic novel.
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Marc Maron and Box Brown declare WTF IS A PODCAST www.comicsbeat.com/wtf-ogn/
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Marc Maron and Box Brown declare WTF IS A PODCAST
Z2 will release the book by Brendan McDonald and Brian Box Brown, chronicling the history of Maron's long-running podcast, via Kickstarter.
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It's the most wonderful time of the year
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. Pages from a mini comicPages from a mini comicPages from a mini comic
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/08/2025
Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action
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Sally Rooney could be arrested under Terrorism Act after pledging royalties to Palestine Action
The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government Irish novelist Sally Rooney could be arrested under the Terrorism Act after saying she intends to use proceeds from her work to support Palestine Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK last month, a legal expert has warned. Meanwhile, No 10 said that supporting the group was an offence under the act, after Rooney had made her pledge. Continue reading...
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