The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel HIS056000 But Kay wasn’t always Kay

But Kay wasn’t always Kay

illuminating essays that grow out of his own experience as a Black man moving through the world

often left on the streets between the ages of eight and eleven

almost forty

Except the lovely nurse isn’t looking to get involved with someone whose job requires a gun on his hip

The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel HIS056000 But Kay wasn’t always KayA joyful coming of age middle grade graphic novel by debut Indigenous creator Cameron Mukwa about the journey of a two spirit kid who wants to create a ribbon skirt for the upcoming powwow. Ten year old Anang wants to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by girls in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow. Anang is two spirit and nonbinary and doesn't know what others will think of them wearing a ribbon skirt, but they're