This lecture is the first in a series of lectures related to the Experiences in Femininity exhibit. 

Caitlin Cass is the creator of the graphic history Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S. (Fantagraphics, 2024). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Lily and The Nib. She started self-publishing her minicomics in graduate school. Since then, she has created over 98 issues of The Postal Constituent. She still considers this the backbone of her creative practice. Caitlin's art has received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council. She teaches Illustration at UNO and is currently pondering medieval marginalia.