Susan reviews Spinning by Tillie Walden
is a graphic memoir by Tillie Walden about the ten years she spent as a competitive figure skater. It's beautiful and compelling, but in some ways it's a hard read.
Everything I know about skating I picked up from Yuri!!! On Ice fandom, so I couldn't speak to how accurate it is, but her explanations of how figure skating, jumps, and synchronised skating works are fascinating. Especially because she does touch on the explicit feminine coding and potential toxicity of enforcing that on ...