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Reading / up-to-date with Shimanami Tasogare by Yuuki Kamatani (translated by Hachimitsu scans). Really enjoying it. There's a lovely sense of camaraderie between these characters, lgbt+ people who find each other and renovate houses together (all united by a mysterious woman who goes by Anonymous).

Blurb from Hachimitsu:

Shimanami Tasogare is a seinen manga by Yuuki Kamatani. After recently moving to Onomichi, Hiroshima, high school student Tasuku Kaname is thrown into despair at the possibility that he may have been outed for being gay. Convinced his life is over, his despair turns into shock when he sees a woman jump out of a window of a nearby house. Tasuku races to the house in a panic only to discover that it's a public meeting lounge owned by the woman he saw before. Tasuku comes face to face with the woman as she walks past him unharmed, but not before she implies that she had been watching him from afar. Confused, Tasuku follows her up to the top of a steep hill where she offers to briefly listen to what's on his mind. Although Tasuku doesn't go into too much detail, he later accepts her invitation to come to the lounge to meet others with similar troubles.

Baka-Updates also has some info on the author, one of the fave manga being Naruto (excellent taste), and that Kamatani identifies as X-gender, a form of non-binary gender in Japan.

Some wonderful characters, so beautiful art (feels very dream like and sharp at times). I would definitely recommend it.

I read this article about Ruth Coker Burks who cared for people with AIDS in the 80s/90s, and cried a lot reading it. She was a wonderful, compassionate woman, who cared for many a dying person when their families wouldn't.

She had a cemetery plot in which she buried the people who's families had shunned them. The people with AIDS who were cared for by her lived an average of two years longer, because, as she believes, she loved them like they were her own children. She didn't wear any gloves like others did when caring for these sick people (unless there was broken skin), and then, years later, after a stroke, stepped up for children that were facing trouble at school because they might be HIV positive.

"In 2013, she went to bat for three foster children who were removed from the elementary school at nearby Pea Ridge after administrators heard that one of them might be HIV positive. Burks said she couldn't believe she was still dealing with the same, knee-jerk fears in the 21st century."

It's a great read, well-written and sincere, and an important part of history.

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