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I Live Here (2008)

door Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon (Auteur), Paul Shoebridge (Auteur), Michael Simons (Auteur)

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I Live Here is a paper documentary-an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. ~THE BOOK~ I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative -- told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas -- in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. Bearing witness to stories that are too often overlooked, it is a raw and intimate journey to crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. The voices we encounter are those of displaced women and children, in their own words or in stories told in text and images by noted writers and artists. The stories unfold in an avalanche: An orphan goes to jail for stealing leftovers. A teenage girl falls in love in a city of disappeared women. A child soldier escapes his army only to be saved by the people he was taught to kill. Mia Kirshner's journals guide us through a unique paper documentary brought vividly to life in collaboration with J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons, with featured works by Joe Sacco, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, Kamel Khelif, and many others. ~THE JOURNEYS ~ IngushetiaThe border of the Russian republic of Ingushetia is not even fifty miles from Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya. Today, some 15,000 Chechen refugees live in Ingushetia. Mia Kirshner and Joe Sacco traveled here together, returning with first-person accounts, video, photographs, and other materials gathered in Nazran and Moscow. The chapter includes journals by Mia Kirshner, the story of a young refugee as told by J.B. MacKinnon, the story of a young piano virtuoso as told by Ann-Marie Macdonald, and a graphic novella of Chechen refugees by Joe Sacco. BurmaEthnic cleansing by the Burmese military has displaced an estimated 500,000 to 1 million people; over 100,000 live in refugee camps along the Thailand-Burma border. Burma is also believed to be home to more child soldiers than any other country in the world. Mia Kirshner and Michael Simons took separate trips to the region; this chapter is based on their interviews, photos, and video, as well as writing by sex workers and Karen refugees. It includes journals by Mia Kirshner, as well as work by Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, J.B. Mackinnon, and a graphic novella by Kamel Khélif. Juárez Ciudad Juárez is a large industrial border city in Mexico across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Since 1993, young women, many of them employees of Juárez's more than three hundred maquiladoras, or global trade zone factories, have been disappearing from the streets. Mia Kirshner and Phoebe Gloeckner made independent journeys to this region; this book is informed by the stories and images they brought home. It includes journals, a story of one of the victims by Lauren Kirshner, and a graphic novella by Phoebe Gloeckner. MalawiMalawi is one of the world's poorest countries, and has an AIDS rate close to twenty percent. The disease touches every aspect of daily life in the African nation, introducing immense chaos, particularly in the case of orphan children. Mia Kirshner and J.B. MacKinnon made the trip to Malawi and returned with interviews, photographs, writing, and artworks. This book includes journals, a children's story by J.B. MacKinnon with art by Julie Morstad, and the stories and artwork of boys in a local prison.… (meer)
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Celebrity philanthropic efforts often center around a few photo opportunities showcased to further a career. These usually well-meaning events generally turn a fleeting spotlight on the truly needy, such as the numerous Africa plights, conquered Tibet, or the disaster relief du jour. With I Live Here, Mia Kirshner (The L Word) shines an unwavering, informative light on important and troubling non-U.S.-centric issues in a truthful and often disturbing manner. She elevates celebrity philanthropic efforts to an extraordinary new level of sophistication in content and style.

Kirshner visited four ravaged areas, conducting interviews with the women and children most affected. I Live Here compiles her encounters in Ingushetia, Burma, Ciudad Juárez, and Malawi in a graphically intense series of four oversized, thin paperbacks wrapped inside a hardcover case. Each book also contains a graphic novella, and two of the volumes offer related short stories.

The Russian republic of Ingushetia lies on the border of Chechnya. Not 50 miles from the embattled country’s capital, Grozny, more than 15,000 Chechen refugees currently live in Nazran, Ingushetia, primarily in tents and abandoned buildings. Kirshner first encounters the orphaned 12-year-old boy Ruslan at the edge of a dirt lot. Through an interpreter, Ruslan relates stories about his father’s missile-ravaged body and the killing of his mother by a drunk driver. Kirshner then meets Ruslan’s foster mother, Yakha, who fled her home for a different reason:

“Yakha remembers the day. It was February 26, 2001, and her husband was drunk, as always. Eighty thousand Russian troops were in Chechnya, and they had been in control of Grozny for a year. Over the weekend, news spread that a mass grave containing fifty-one Chechens had been found in an abandoned village less than a mile from the main Russian military base. It was on the Monday, though, that her husband beat her with weights in his hands, and she fled. She had to leave her kids behind and go. Can you imagine? She had to leave her children behind. When last she saw her husband, he said this business wasn’t finished. He had threatened to take her body into the forest and cut it into pieces.”

Yakha eventually returned to Grozny and brought her children to Nazran. The set’s best graphic novella, [author:Joe Sacco]’s excellent graphic story “Chechen War, Chechen Women,” perfectly supports the rest of the book’s text by skillfully recounting the tragedy’s history through the life of an old Chechen women.

In perhaps the most disturbing volume, Kirshner meets with several Thai sex workers and young Burmese soldiers, ages 13 and under. Graphic stories of rape, abortion, and hunger emerge from the desperate women that work in Mae Sot along the Thai-Burma border. The prostitutes, often conscripted in their pre-teens, powerfully relate the inherent cruelty and desperation of their situation. As in all of the volumes, photographs and pictures by and of the oppressed appear with the words — none as effective as the intense images of the barbaric abortion methods. No pro-life fetuses here, just the starkness of a gloved hand entering an anonymous vagina and a drawing of a “homemade abortion stick.”

This book also contains [author:Karen Connelly]’s “The Princess of the Sagawa Tea Shop.” The best fiction in I Live Here, it emotionally shares the trials of an experienced Thai prostitute who wants to retire and raise a family.

The impoverished, international drug-trafficking center Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, attracts thousands of Latin-American migrants to work in the city’s 300-plus factories. Since 1993, some 400 women, many of them factory workers, have been killed, usually raped and tortured, and dozens more have gone missing. Kirshner traveled to this troubled city and met the parents of Ericka, one of the victims.

While complete with images from Ericka’s life, the interview pales next to [author:Margaret Atwood] protegé (and Mia sibling) [author:Lauren Kirshner]’s “Twenty Poems for Claudia,” a creative non-fiction essay recounting the life of another victim. The story begins with a FedEx box:

“In the box there are photos of gray highways and underpasses. Pictures of you wearing white powder and blue contact lenses, with your mouth closed like you you’ve got a secret you want to tell. There’s an interview with your mother, who says God will take care of everything. There is a photo of the Lear factory where you worked making electrical harnesses for American cars. There’s a photo of a pariah street dog with an empty potato-chip bag on its mouth, one yellow eye visible and disappointed. There are pages from your high-school notebook: a few notes about John Locke, the Enlightenment, knowledge for all. The notes stop halfway down the page, where fat graffiti takes over.”

Lauren Kirshner accomplishes far more than rehashing Claudia’s short life — she experiences it, complete with confusion and disgust over this unsolved murder and the countless others.

The massive weight of the AIDS crisis crushes Malawi, where one in five residents is HIV-positive, and the humanitarian needs far outstrip the available aide. Mia Kirshner talks with AIDS victim Miriam, who like many in this poor African nation cannot afford the treatments. Kirshner relates the sad moment when Miriam learns that her daughter, too, has the plague: “She doesn’t normally cry, she says, and asks me if I know why tears are hot.”

In the same volume, Kirshner visits the Kacher Prison for boys. The inmates, all between 11-19, are are often locked up for petty offenses for years at a time. No one claims them, not because of harsh penalties but rather the epidemic. Kirshner intertwines the story with the young men’s own words.

The magnificent design by Michael Simons and Adbusters alumnus Paul Shoebridge weaves the disparate elements into one of the finest looking publications ever produced. In toto, the package forms an amazing work of art. An exceptional book of rare quality, I Live Here exceeds all expectations.

This originally appeared in The San Antonio Current 11/5/08 ( )
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I Live Here is a paper documentary-an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. ~THE BOOK~ I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative -- told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas -- in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global. Bearing witness to stories that are too often overlooked, it is a raw and intimate journey to crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. The voices we encounter are those of displaced women and children, in their own words or in stories told in text and images by noted writers and artists. The stories unfold in an avalanche: An orphan goes to jail for stealing leftovers. A teenage girl falls in love in a city of disappeared women. A child soldier escapes his army only to be saved by the people he was taught to kill. Mia Kirshner's journals guide us through a unique paper documentary brought vividly to life in collaboration with J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons, with featured works by Joe Sacco, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Phoebe Gloeckner, Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, Kamel Khelif, and many others. ~THE JOURNEYS ~ IngushetiaThe border of the Russian republic of Ingushetia is not even fifty miles from Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya. Today, some 15,000 Chechen refugees live in Ingushetia. Mia Kirshner and Joe Sacco traveled here together, returning with first-person accounts, video, photographs, and other materials gathered in Nazran and Moscow. The chapter includes journals by Mia Kirshner, the story of a young refugee as told by J.B. MacKinnon, the story of a young piano virtuoso as told by Ann-Marie Macdonald, and a graphic novella of Chechen refugees by Joe Sacco. BurmaEthnic cleansing by the Burmese military has displaced an estimated 500,000 to 1 million people; over 100,000 live in refugee camps along the Thailand-Burma border. Burma is also believed to be home to more child soldiers than any other country in the world. Mia Kirshner and Michael Simons took separate trips to the region; this chapter is based on their interviews, photos, and video, as well as writing by sex workers and Karen refugees. It includes journals by Mia Kirshner, as well as work by Chris Abani, Karen Connelly, J.B. Mackinnon, and a graphic novella by Kamel Khélif. Juárez Ciudad Juárez is a large industrial border city in Mexico across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Since 1993, young women, many of them employees of Juárez's more than three hundred maquiladoras, or global trade zone factories, have been disappearing from the streets. Mia Kirshner and Phoebe Gloeckner made independent journeys to this region; this book is informed by the stories and images they brought home. It includes journals, a story of one of the victims by Lauren Kirshner, and a graphic novella by Phoebe Gloeckner. MalawiMalawi is one of the world's poorest countries, and has an AIDS rate close to twenty percent. The disease touches every aspect of daily life in the African nation, introducing immense chaos, particularly in the case of orphan children. Mia Kirshner and J.B. MacKinnon made the trip to Malawi and returned with interviews, photographs, writing, and artworks. This book includes journals, a children's story by J.B. MacKinnon with art by Julie Morstad, and the stories and artwork of boys in a local prison.

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