How To Make A Phone Call (VICE) — Saul Freedman-Lawson

“How To Make A Phone Call,” by S. Bear Bergman, illustrated by Saul Freedman-Lawson. October 2021, for VICE.com.

ID: A person with long, dark hair, a hooked nose, and a soft chin looks in shock at a telephone, the cord of which is wrapped around them. Blasting out of the phone are the words “How To Get Over Your Phone Anxiety Enough To Make The Calls You Need T

ID: The caption reads “1. There’s a lot less judgement than you may imagine: we’re all weird, (especially right now).” A thin person with dark curly hair, big glasses, and tattoos fiddles anxiously with a piece of string while making a phone call ins

ID: The caption reads “2. Pick a face to talk to.” A fat person in a flannel shirt with a short, coily fade is holding a phone out in front of them as they look at a picture of Lizzo. “Hey there!” they say.

ID: The caption reads “3. Write a script: it’s three lines and I’ll do two of them for you.” A thin person dressed as Columbia from the Rocky Horror Picture Show walks across a stage, talking into a phone. “Hi/Hello/Howdy!” they say. Their second spe

ID: The caption reads “4. Plan ahead for troubleshooting…” On one side of the image, a small, fat blond man with a moustache deflects the words “How can I help you ma’am?” with a shield reading “I’m sorry, who?... Oh I got confused because you said m

ID: The caption reads “... so you don’t just freeze.” On one side, a thin person with long box braids wearing a trans symbol necklace, with their cane next to the chair they’re sitting in, deflects a speech bubble mostly hidden by clouds with a shiel

ID: The caption reads “5. Crack the code for “I am done talking now.” A hand with short, striped nails turns the dial on a combination lock. Various points on the dial read “Can’t wait to see you next week!” “Let me let you go,” “...All right!” “I wo

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