I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand Tarot and celebratory photos are a

and celebratory photos are a window into the outburst of pent-up celebration and (occasionally) riotous ebullience of theretofore closeted persons who had suddenly felt the door of tolerance opening a crack

racial stereotypes—and the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions

But when a video linking Jack to a pair of popular trans vloggers is leaked to the school

Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear

like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance

I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand Tarot and celebratory photos are aBy L. Nichols Some books take the whole of a lifetime to write. I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand continues Flocks, L. Nicholss graphic memoir of growing up trans in the rural South. These comics document L.s further transition, from living as a man to walking the middle path, facing depression, disease, divorce and death. Healing leaves scars, things fall apart, and pronouns change until there is no I, there is only us.