Candida Rifkind
@crifkind.bsky.social
Professor of comic books & Canadian Literature at University of Winnipeg. Writing about refugee & migrant comics, architectural imagination in comics, Canadian auto/bio.
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
The transactional — and optimizable — connections of ‘cozy video games’ theconversation.com/the-transact...
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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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
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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Can we take a minute to appreciate this guy's perfect peemanship?
Elizabeth Boyle@thecelticist.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers by urinating the words “Fuck Ice” on the snow just before the start of the Winter Olympics." I'm impressed by his aim (in more senses than one). www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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
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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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 🫶🏻
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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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.
Robin Bougie@robinbougie.bsky.social · 6mo agoComics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.
🚨"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 ⬇️
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
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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...
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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Another perfect diagram of Sunday evening/Monday morning vibes by Jill McDonald from a 1968 Puffin Post
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.
turner lobey@turnerlobey.bsky.social · 8mo agoWhat a loss. Mass market paperbacks are the ideal novel format.
Hot reminder that applications for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant are OPEN! If you're a comics critic, please apply! forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...
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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They died because they were women. December 6, 1989. National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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.
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller November 28,1963
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/...
This Wednesday 19 November 2025, you're invited: ernestopriego.com/2025/11/17/g... h/t @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #GraphicRefuge
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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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
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.’
