Co-author Shyam Kunwar agreed to be turned into a character in Stacy’s first-person telling. Creative direction from Stacy Leigh Pigg, with assistance from Jana Ghimire. Illustrations and photos are by Shushank Shrestha, with page and image design work from Jana Ghimire, Shushank Shrestha, and Shreya Shrestha. The graphic novel is being created in collaboration with the ‘Infrastructures of Democracy’ research project (co-PIs, Dr Katharine Rankin and Dr Sara Shneiderman), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The entire research team, but most especially Tulasi Sigdel and Shanta Thapa, generously helped shape the vision of the graphic novel.
Declaration of conflicting interests
The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The travel and work behind the graphic novel project have been funded in part by the David Lam Centre for International Communication at Simon Fraser University, the Hari Sharma Foundation for South Asian Advancement and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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