Shake Girl

Fifteen students and two professors at Stanford have produced an excellent graphic novel, which tells the story of a teenage Cambodian girl working at a stall selling shakes, and how she ends up getting doused in acid.

The storytelling could have turned patronising and hand-wringing, but the students navigated around this well:

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You can read it here.

(Via Boing Boing)