Changing the Narrative visually tells the stories of those who have been homeless and/or experienced food and housing insecurities. ARTIST ARANTZA PEÑA POPO, COPYRIGHT PSU 2021
Portland State University instructor Kacy McKinney has used comics to teach in her classroom, written about them academically, and made them herself. Now she’s bringing local organizations together with indie artists to tell stories about homelessness, and what it means to cope with food and housing insecurity, through an 80-page full color comic.
Changing the Narrative is a collaborative project headed by McKinney and made in partnership with Street Roots, the Independent Publishing Research Center, and the Downstairs Gallery. McKinney and her team produced ten comic narratives about PSU students who had, at some point, dealt with what it meant to experience homelessness.
