Picture + Panel: Queer Health

This month, Picture + Panel explores queer bodies and medical autonomy with Jared Sarnie and Violet Kitchen. Noah Glick from Fenway Health will moderate. All BCAF events are free to attend. If you wish to pay it forward, a $5 suggested donation helps sustain BCAF's comics advocacy and educational programming in the Greater Boston area. Picture + Panel is a monthly conversation series that brings fantastic graphic novel creators to the Greater Boston area. Discover terrific authors and fascinating stories that combine text and art through conversational confabulation. Produced in partnership by the Boston Comic Arts Foundation, Porter Square Books, and the Boston Figurative Arts Center, Picture + Panel provides thought-provoking discussions for adults about this unique form of expression. Book sales are provided at the event by Porter Square Books. Violet Kitchen is a recovering hermit plying their trade from the banks of the Connecticut River. They are one half of the micropress Go Press Girl!, a librarian at the Center for Cartoon Studies, and an avid enthusiast of graveyards. Their comic Allodynia was a 2025 Ignatz Award winner for Outstanding Minicomic. Jared Sarnie died at the age of 83 and was born at the age of 0. Somewhere in the middle there, he made a comic.