Tuuli ja myrsky

An anarchafeminist activist group gets word a friend of them has been raped – by the popular guitarist of a local punk band. Suddenly it’s time to put all their discussions into practice. It isn’t necessarily as easy as they think.

More than anything, this graphic novel reads like a sort of manual in dealing with rape from a feminist, authority skeptic point of view. As such, it’s interesting – we get to follow discussions about the dangers of gender binary and victimization, the borderlands of sexual abuse and even see schematic panels of feminist self-defense.

Unfortunately, it isn’t quite working as a story. The characters are cutouts and the whole chain of events seems very stressed. I think this might have actually been show more much better if it had been a lot longer, allowing more room for the discussion and debate within the group, as well as the tension that comes with the culprit being one of their own scene. show less