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The Outside Circle
by Patti Laboucane-Benson
The Outside Circle is a dive into not only trauma and the cyclical nature of trauma, but it is a dive into the personal nature of healing. In this instance specifically it details a First-Nation person’s journey in using aboriginal practices to heal. When we first meet Pete, he has joined a gang, his mother is a drug addict, and Pete is the one that primarily looks out for younger brother Joey. After his mom and her drug addicted boyfriend sell all the belongings in the house, the situation escalates with the boyfriend using a knife on Pete and Pete shooting and killing him resulting in Pete going to jail.
This graphic novel does a phenomenal job establishing the ways trauma is generational and at depicting the repercussions of that trauma. The reader gets to see how Pete grows and heals through a program that reconnects him with a culture that generational trauma and systems that prioritized and held up whiteness robbed him of. I read this for critical literacy and social justice pedagogy class.
This graphic novel does a phenomenal job establishing the ways trauma is generational and at depicting the repercussions of that trauma. The reader gets to see how Pete grows and heals through a program that reconnects him with a culture that generational trauma and systems that prioritized and held up whiteness robbed him of. I read this for critical literacy and social justice pedagogy class.