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But we were talking earlier about not appropriating voice – so while I have strong views on issues of race, I think they’re better articulated by a person of colour. They can do the talking – I don’t need to add my noise to that. “So if I can’t think of a unique way of putting it, or showing it, that’s OK because there’s really smart people with good voices and excellent ways of putting things.” “I wish I could talk more on my site about figuring out what I can add to a conversation, when there’s so many people who say much better than me,” RH explains. We started off with a conversation around issues of voice – how it is appropriate to discuss struggles that don’t affect you personally, as well as being mindful to articulate yourself in language that is accessible and respectful.

Today, the comic is frequently posted around, showing up on Imgur, Metafilter and even Upworthy. Lots of cats.Īccording to its author, traffic spiked around “Interpretation” and “But Men”. Topics include struggles with mental health, discussions of queerness and body diversity, interspersed with cats. The comic consistently updates twice a week, though the precise days may vary. Running in a variety of formats since 2011, its genesis lies earlier in the above-mentioned summer. Robot Hugs is a special kind of web comic.

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Kind of like when you look into a serial killer’s room and the wall is covered. “When my room-mates got back, the house was practically covered in these post-its. The reply is in response to a question about the one-panel animal mash-ups that pop up frequently in the early years of the strip. “I was alone one summer in a little house, and I was drawing them as a kind of coping mechanism.” RH explains this to me as we sip Red Stripe on a rooftop patio looking east towards Toronto’s iconic CN Tower. Which makes the whole proceeding a little less mythical, and a little more plausible. But in the case of Robot Hugs, it was a forest of post-it notes, and less of an uplift than a very normal struggle with the darker corners of their mind. The following morning they reveal themselves as the spark of some divine madness that uplifts the author. There is a persistent trope about great ideas: they are scrawled drunkenly on the back of a cocktail napkin.