PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: Breaking the Taboo

Victor Malo-Juvera and Paula Greathouse

CHAPTER 1: Date Rape in Speak: Teaching for Justice Using the Graphic Novel

Shelly Shaffer CHAPTER 2: Speak! Shout! Hearing from and Advocating for Victims of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment

Marshall A. George

CHAPTER 3: Exploring Women's Rights and Sexual Assault through Blood Water Paint: How far have we come anyway?

Alice Hays

CHAPTER 4: Examining Mental Illness in John Green's Turtles All the Way Down: OCD - More than Just Attention to Detail

Elsie Lindy Olan & Kia Jane Richmond

CHAPTER 5: Putting the Pieces Together: Destigmatizing Self-Harm through Kathleen Glasgow's Girl in Pieces

Janine J. Darragh and Ashley S. Boyd

CHAPTER 6: When Home is Traumatic: David Small's Graphic Memoir, Stitches

Emily Wender

CHAPTER 7: Choosing Love over Hate: Raising Students Who Understand Bullying and Its Dangerous Consequences - Hate List

Leilya Pitre

CHAPTER 8: Far from Simple: Addressing the Complexities of Equity and Justice in Robin Benway's Far from the Tree

Sharon Kane and Christine Walsh

CHAPTER 9: Digging up the Injustices of the Roaring 20s: Dreamland Burning

Crag Hill

CHAPTER 10: Examining Systemic Racism and Police Brutality in Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

Steffany Comfort Maher

CHAPTER 11: Confronting Cultural Appropriation and Gentrification through YAL: Shadowshaper

Meredith N. Sinclair

CHAPTER 12: Teachers, Allies, & Sacrifice: Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and his Sacrifice for Civil Rights

Steven Bickmore and Tammy Szafranski

CHAPTER 13: Exploring Equity and Justice in the Female Immigrant Experience through Anya's Ghost

Nina R. Schoonover and Michelle Falter

CHAPTER 14: Equity, Justice, and Love: Contextualizing the Fight for Marriage Equality with Loving vs. VirginiaTerri Suico

CHAPTER 15: Telling the Stories: Teaching LGBTQ+ Memoir

Melanie Hundley

CHAPTER 16: Using Jaya and Rasa: A Love Story to Portray Love's Power in Assisting Two Outcast Adolescents Achieve Societal Voices and Personal Self-Esteem

Lisa A. Hazlett and Ann Marie Smith

CHAPTER 17: Engaging the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Immigration in American Street

E. Sybil Durand

ABOUT THE EDITORS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

SUBJECT INDEX