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Facing the realities of marriage, equality and societal structures with hope

PERSPECTIVE | A weekly comic by Katie Wheeler

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September 24, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. EDT

“My partner and I have wildly different jobs: He works at Amazon, and I’m a freelance artist. As we begin to talk about starting a family, it becomes more and more apparent that my feminist utopia of equal partnership and parenting is much more complicated, and distant, than expected.”

Katie Wheeler is an artist and illustrator based in Seattle.