Welcome to the colorful comic world of Pepita Sandwich, where its always cool to cry.

We dont talk about our tears enoughat least according to the illustrator behind ourMay SELF Well-Read Book Club pick.

ButThe Art of Cryingshows just how much catharsis that conversation can offer.

Comic illustration of young girl crying in bedroom

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The below excerpt fromThe Art of Cryingunpacks how gender roles affect our attitudes toward shedding tears.

Excerpted fromThe Art of Cryingby Pepita Sandwich.

Copyright 2024 by Pepita Sandwich.

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Used with permission of Voracious, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company.

New York, NY.

IT WAS THE YEAR 2000. WE HAD SURVIVED THE Y2K APOCALYPSE AND THE NEW MILLENNIUM HAD STARTED. I WAS THIRTEEN YEARS OLD…

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GENDER ROLES AND TEARS SOCIETY SHAPES GENDER ROLES AND PLAYS A PART IN HOW HUMANS ENGAGE IN THEIR CRYING EXPERIENCES….

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ON AVERAGE WOMEN CRY 5.3 TIMES A MONTH WHILE MEN CRY 1.3 TIMES A MONTH WITH CRYING DEFINED AS ANYTHING FROM MOIST EYES…

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AT SOME POINT IN OUR RELATIONSHIP EVERY ROMANTIC PARTNER I’VE EVER HAD HAS ASKED ME WHY I CRY SO MUCH AND I HAVE ASKED…

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HOW WE TEACH CHILDREN TO EXPRESS EMOTIONS CAN HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON HOW THEY FEEL AND BEHAVE. BOYS ARE OFTEN TAUGHT TO…

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DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PATRIARCHAL MAINSTREAM CULTURE EMPHASIZED THE NOTION THAT EMOTIONS WERE A FORM OF WEAKNESS….

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FEMINISTS IN THE ‘60S CHALLENGED THE IDEA THAT EMOTIONS WERE SOLELY THE DOMAIN OF WOMEN AND REASON THE DOMAIN OF MEN AND…

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IN 2015 AFTER THE FOURTH WAVE OF FEMINISM EMERGED GLOBALLY THE NI UNA MENOS MOVEMENT WAS FOUNDED IN ARGENTINA. THAT YEAR…

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“STOP CRYING LIKE A GIRL” IS A CONSTANT PHRASE DIRECTED AT BOYS AS THEY GROW UP. GENDER IS AN IDENTITY AND IS NOT BASED…

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