Eight Indian and eight German women cartoonists came together at a workshop to produce this anthology of comic strips and longer form stories about women's experiences that are often seen as taboo. While the collection, like most anthologies, is a bit uneven, there were several stand-out pieces like Prabha Mallya's "Bitch," a series of prints about a wolf/woman who is living in defiance of gender norms; "Ebony & Ivory" by Priya Kuriyan, which tells the story of how the author and her family learned the real history of her grandmother and grandfather; and Töchter by Stephanie Wunderlich, which uses bold collage-style art to tell the story of how she pursued a career in art in spite of her family's gendered expectations. I also really loved the art in Archana Sreenivasan's "Otherly Urges," Larissa Bertonasco's "Po Power," and Katrin Stangl's "Some Questions."

The issues explored in the anthology were not extremely groundbreaking, from my perspective, and focused a lot on women's bodies in a way that can be a bit essentialist. In addition to the bold, full-page series of prints from artists like Mallya and Stangl, I preferred the very personal and specific stories of people's families to the more general observations on motherhood/childlessness, body insecurity and sexual assault.