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Akin Roadtrip: Our Quest to Bring Sex Education to the Man Who Invented "Legitimate Rape"

Monday, 10 September 2012 15:19 By Sara Drake and Anne Elizabeth Moore, Truthout | Graphic Journalism

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Ladydrawers - Akin Roadtrip We promised you some gender bending last month with our first male Ladydrawers artist, but we're going to put that off for a bit to bring you some mind-bending: Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Missouri) statements about female biology. When we heard them, we knew immediately: that guy needs some accurate, evidence-based words and pictures about gender and sexuality, stat. So, with our good pals from Our Bodies, Ourselves, we decided to take a road trip to St. Louis.

The journey caught the popular imagination, with coverage in Jezebel, the New York Daily News, Express Milwaukee and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If only we could deliver comprehensive sex education materials to all 541 members of Congress! Come to think of it, we might! In the meantime, we're making a pop quiz about the female anatomy and how it is legislated. Tell us what we should ask your representatives in the comments section below!

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Anne Elizabeth Moore

Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar and author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of now-defunct Punk Planet, founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects. Her latest book, Cambodian Grrrl (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), was called "The best travel book I've read this year," by a USA Today reviewer and "piercingly honest" by The Rumpus.

Sara Drake

Sara Drake is a cartoonist and maze-maker who currently resides on the Internet. Her work is displayed in official and not-so-official places. She likes short walks on the beach and candlelit geodesic domes, and she hates jerks. She is the author of the self-published comic, "Small Advices," and the former editor of Xerox Candy Bar. Visit her blog by clicking here.