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# A 13-Year-Old Cartoonist's Response to Trump's Family Separation Policy
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/trump-family-separation-border-melania/
- Published: 2018-06-22T18:00:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:55:19.000Z
- Description: Following the news, the outspoken cartoonist and activist Sasha Matthews shared her comic with Hyperallergic.
- Author: Sasha Matthews
- Tags: Comics, Donald Trump, Immigration, Melania Trump, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

**Editor’s Note:** Earlier this year when President Trump suggested that teachers take up arms at schools, 13-year-old cartoonist and activist Sasha Matthews [came up with an impressive response](https://hyperallergic.com/sasha-matthews-cartoonist-parkland-shooting/). Her comic, titled “An NRA dream come true,” showed armed teachers and students, and a gun casually arranged with other school supplies.

“After the election of Trump, I was afraid,” Matthews said during a speech at the [ACLU Conference](https://conference.aclu.org/ehome/314332?ref=hyperallergic.com) earlier this month in Washington, DC. “But instead of feeling like there was nothing I could do, I decided to do something about it.” She started a year-long fundraiser for the ACLU called [*Everyday Superheroes*](http://rumblecomics.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), in which she drew everyday people — trash pickers, scientists, artists, and activists — as superheroes. Every dollar she raised selling the drawings — a total of $11,635.83 — went toward the ACLU.

It comes as no surprise, then, that when Trump ordered authorities at the US-Mexico border to separate parents from their children — and then signed an executive order partially retreating from the decision, though [his wife’s wardrobe choice](https://hyperallergic.com/melania-trump-border-fashion/) betrayed the president’s indifference — Matthews had a response, and shared it with Hyperallergic.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/06/i-am-stable-genius-i-really-dont-care-2.jpg)