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After reviewing Team Muhafiz and the Child Raiders and Cash Cow, I would like to add Daria: A Roma Woman’s Journey to our list of forced marriage comics. Source Together, they are painting a more and more complex picture of forced marriage. They show that forced marriages are a global problem. Statistically speaking, forced marriages
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How do I review something so raw and biographical as the multimedia comic, Cash Cow? As a scholar of the arts and humanities, I’m used to assessing fictional gambits like symbol, metaphor and narrative. But this is real. This happened to a living girl – a child – and it’s happening to other children even
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Who are you? I am Hannah Gloudon, a member of Savera UK Youth and the Youth Advisory Board’s current Chair. Outside of Savera UK, I currently work as a mental health research assistant. When did you first become interested in forced marriage, or so-called honour-based abuse more broadly? It was during my first session with
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It is on the internet, therefore it must be true. Like little elves, we are busily preparing the launch of our comic and a separate but connected panel discussion on human rights education more broadly. If you want to know more, click the link and scroll down until you find our event. We’d love to see
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In an attempt to make this blog a welcoming corner of the internet, I decided to put together a list of classic comics that any beginner would have a great time reading. But I noticed as I was writing the list that the comics skew a little… well… male. They’re written by men. They’re predominantly
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Comic culture can be daunting. The world is changing, I know, but I remember the days when I, a young (feminine) reader of comics, felt really uncomfortable and unwelcome in a comic book shop. The closest thing I got to representation was Sailor Moon, which I was clearly too much of a proto-Cool Girl to
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“But Mum, I love him!” My sister proclaimed. She was older than me, probably just turned sixteen, and was deeply in love with her first boyfriend (who was her own age and, if memory serves, a sweetheart. He gave me my first copy of The Smashing Pumpkins, though, so I’m aware that I might be
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A couple of weeks ago, I came across Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics and Alex put together a handy list resources for comic making. I wish I could say I followed any of the advice of The Great comic writers when I wrote ours. Instead, and as so often in academia, I made it up
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Yes, I am reluctantly blowing my own trumpet. Last year, I wrote a journal article about forced marriage and human rights law. It is still under review. That is the academic publication process for you. Apart from that it takes AGES, it also involves a lot of write-and-delete. Or maybe more write-and-take-out-what-you-have-just-written-because-it-pushes-the-article-over-the-wordlimit-but-save-it-in-another-document-just-in-case. I decided to
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