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Tessa Hulls is an artist/writer/adventurer who is equally likely to disappear into a research library or the wilderness. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, and Adventure Journal, and her comics have been published in The Rumpus, City Arts, and The Margins. She has been awarded grants from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Robert B McMillen Foundation, and received the Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. For the last almost-decade, she has focused on creating Feeding Ghosts, a graphic memoir that traces three generations of women in her family across a backdrop of Chinese history to explore the complicated ways that mothers and daughters both damage and save one another.

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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

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“But what do you do when trauma distorts love into something cloying and fraught? Unresolved ghosts just grow stronger across generations, destroying children with the very things their parents swore to save them from.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

tags: intergenerational-trauma

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“My mother learned how to grow a life around her damage. But beneath the surface, her ghosts seethed in the chasms ripped through her core.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

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“She thought if she could get us out of China, we'd be safe.
But she couldn't outrun her mental illness. It was waiting to devour us.
She always was a drowning woman trying desperately to throw me on the shore so I would not drown with her.”
― Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

tags: family, immigration-experience, mental-illness

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