Julie Maroh’s Blue Is The Warmest Color follows Clementine’s sexual journey. While the text is a love story set in France, it is colored with harsh realities with Clementine's internalized homophobia that is regularly reinforced by friends and family.

Drawing the line is a compelling anthology by 14 Indian women responding to the 2012 New Delhi bus attack that was a flash point in the women’s rights movement against sexual violence. While some of the short stories deal with sexual violence straight on, many others focus on the gender disparities that support the rape culture.

Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds follows Koby and Numi as they search for Koby’s dad who has disappeared.

Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma ½ is delightful, lighthearted gender-bending text. The text neatly fits into the genre of shojo, manga targeted at young girls, with it’s themes of romance and school drama.

Kim Dong Hwa’s Color of Earth is the first in a coming-of-age trilogy about a young girl and her mother. Ehwa and her mother run a local tavern in pastoral Korea. Dong Hwa uses the narrative to explore what his mother’s childhood may have been like.