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Themes labels used: survival, misogyny, feminism, gender roles, reproduction, motherhood, bodily autonomy, power, human nature, hope, despair, trauma, civilizational collapse, sexual violence, commodity bodies, queer identity, history keeping, resilience, community

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Cover of The Doloriad by Missouri Williams

The Doloriad

Missouri Williams · 2022

A ruined-world family ruled by a fearsome matriarch struggles to survive, repopulate, and hold power together.

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Themes labels: survival · civilizational collapse · environmental degradation · morality · ethics · human nature · violence · trauma · family dysfunction · power · reproduction · gender · womanhood · femininity · social class · meaning-making · faith · climate emergency · ecological destruction · disability · body shame · extinction · new order · human frailty

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Cover of Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores

Brian K. Vaughan, Claudia Fliege · 2008 · Y: The Last Man

In a world where every Y-chromosome mammal dies, the lone survivor races across a broken globe for answers and love.

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Themes labels: gender politics · survival · loss · grief · hope · identity · human nature · social change · power dynamics · feminism · misandry · family · responsibility · species survival · meaning of endings · adaptation · community · morality

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Woman World

Aminder Dhaliwal · 2018

In a post-men world, women rebuild society through short, funny comic vignettes about life, love, and memory.

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Themes labels: womanhood · feminism · gender · community · identity · survival · memory · nostalgia · love · family · mental health · relationships · power dynamics · social commentary · everyday resilience · history and forgetting · patriarchy · utopia vs dystopia

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Cover of Femlandia by Christina Dalcher

Femlandia

Christina Dalcher · 2021

In a collapsing America, a reluctant mother and daughter seek shelter in a women-only colony with dangerous secrets.

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Themes labels: feminism · patriarchy · gender roles · equality · survival · trauma · abuse · extremism · control · cult dynamics · fear · motherhood · reproduction · identity · male violence · misogyny · misandry · trans exclusion · social collapse · power and secrecy

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Cover of My Name is Monster by Katie Hale

My Name is Monster

Katie Hale · 2019

A lone survivor crosses a ruined world, then finds a feral girl and must decide what it means to survive and become Mother.

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Themes labels: survival · motherhood · loneliness · connection · belonging · identity · creation · nature and nurture · power · education · memory · trauma · feminism · fertility · womanhood · human condition · hope · loss · isolation · societal roles · freedom · language · meaning · rebuilding

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Trashlands

Alison Stine · 2021

In a flood-ravaged future where plastic is currency, a mother in a junkyard camp fights to reclaim her stolen child.

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Themes labels: survival · climate change · environmental collapse · resource scarcity · maternal love · art and creativity · community · humanity · class inequality · gendered violence · patriarchy · capitalism · labor exploitation · hope amid ruin · responsibility · memory · sacrifice

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Cover of The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

The Book of Joan

Lidia Yuknavitch · 2017

In a ruined future Earth, a rebel girl and a body artist challenge a tyrant ruling a sexless space colony.

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Themes labels: gender fluidity · feminism · environmental collapse · survival · power · body politics · humanity · art and storytelling · identity · reproduction · desire · violence · ecology · late capitalism · tyranny · resistance · mortality · corporeality

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Cover of Живые люди by Yana Vagner

Живые люди

Yana Vagner, Яна Вагнер · 2013 · Вонгозеро

A post-pandemic group tries to survive winter isolation on a remote lake island as confinement exposes every fracture.

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Themes labels: survival · human nature · isolation · scarcity · confined living · fear · hope · despair · conflict · coexistence · gender dynamics · identity · post-trauma · morality under pressure · motherhood · belonging

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Cover of Mecanoscrit del segon origen by Manuel de Pedrolo

Mecanoscrit del segon origen

Manuel de Pedrolo · 1995

Two young survivors navigate a ruined world, trying to stay alive, keep hope, and decide what humanity should become next.

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Themes labels: survival · rebuilding civilization · loss of innocence · trauma · human nature · sexuality · racism · feminism · education · culture preservation · censorship · freedom · maturity · soledad · hope · responsibility · taboo · violence · death · love · repopulation · social roles · utopia · anti-racism · ecology

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Cover of Cut by Annelie Wendeberg

Cut

Annelie Wendeberg · 2018 · 1/2986

A suicidal teen in a ruined future is offered an apprenticeship that could help save humanity—or force her to kill to survive.

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Themes labels: survival · climate change · ecocide · human violence · social collapse · abuse · self-harm · suicidality · coming of age · identity · agency · female autonomy · moral compromise · truth and secrecy · science and realism · hope · despair · misogyny · reproduction pressure

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Cover of Cured by Bethany Wiggins

Cured

Bethany Wiggins · 2014 · Stung

A disguised teen joins a dangerous quest to find her missing brother and spread a cure across a ruined, raider-haunted world.

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Themes labels: survival · trust · identity · gender roles · misogyny · female vulnerability · family loyalty · love vs survival · preservation · environmental collapse · scarcity · freedom · doing the right thing · secrecy · betrayal

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Cover of Y: The Last Man Omnibus by Brian K. Vaughan

Y: The Last Man Omnibus

Brian K. Vaughan · 2019 · Y: The Last Man

After a plague kills every Y-chromosome mammal on Earth, one man and his monkey cross a changed world seeking answers and loved ones.

Why this is here

Themes labels: gender roles · gender essentialism · social construction · feminism · survival · power · human nature · identity · grief · love and loss · societal collapse · rebuilding society · political commentary · moral ambiguity · sexism · queer identity · class and power · trauma · reproduction · humanity

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Distance: 0.0897

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