Tag: forced marriage

  • Exciting News! Discover our French Comic!

    Our comic has been translated into French by Voix de Femmes! The translation enables more people to read the comic and use it to educate themselves and others about forced marriage, to raise awareness, and develop practices of allyship. The comic is a starting point to discuss questions of consent; healthy relationships; the laws related…

  • An unholy union? Forced marriage and comics

    If you have been following our project, it will not surprise you to hear the words “forced marriage” and “comic” in the same sentence. Now you have the opportunity to see our forced marriage comic in action. How exciting! I am doing a public talk on 8 November, 5-7pm, in the Kolbox space at The…

  • New journal article!

    After our blog post for BERA, I am delighted to now share the longer article version with you. In the blog post, we reflect on comics as a teaching tool, using Emina’s story as an example. We argue that comics equip students with visual literacy skills in education, and (maybe more importantly) with critical thinking…

  • Return of the Gods: Comic Books and Classical Literature at Liverpool World Museum

    The World Museum in Liverpool is currently hosting the exhibition Return of the Gods. It shows a collection of over 100 statues that have never been seen together before. It’s a great exhibition, and I recommend you go (if you can – it closes in February). But why am I talking about it here? Well,…

  • The London Damsel’s Fate by Unjust Tyranny – Forced Marriage in the Seventeenth Century

    As a literature scholar, one of the things I find most fascinating about forced marriage is the way in which it has been used as a source of entertainment in popular culture. To be clear, I’m not saying that forced marriage is entertaining. It’s a horrendous, egregious crime. And yet, it has regularly been used…

  • Recognising the Signs of Forced Marriage

    Forced marriage can happen to anyone at any time, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation or ethnicity. It’s therefore vitally important that everyone is familiar with the signs of forced marriage, so that we can work together to protect ourselves and our friends. This blog post contains a list that will help you recognise the…

  • Forced Marriage and Fairy Tale Weddings: Hans My Hedgehog.

    What do you think of when I say the word ‘fairy tale’? Perhaps you envision Cinderella in her glass slippers, or Snow White with a red apple in her hands. Maybe you think of the endless marketing campaigns of the wedding industry, where ‘fairy tale’ is the defining feature of any marriage, because – as…

  • Call for Book Chapter Proposals

    Forced Marriage: A Multidisciplinary Response to a Global Issue The International Labour Organization, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration estimated that, in 2021, globally, at least 22 million people were in a marriage they did not freely and fully consent to. Forced marriage is a human rights violation that is illegal in 52…

  • Forced Marriage – Finding Help

    If you or someone you know is dealing with forced marriage, please contact: If You Are At Risk Talk to someone. It could be a teacher, a friend, or someone you trust. Remember: you haven’t done anything wrong, this isn’t your fault. If you can, we recommend you call either Karma Nirvana or Savera UK…

  • Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel (a Snippet Review) 

    If you’ve been here a while, you know that I – Alex – am an English literature PhD candidate. So I was absolutely delighted to have my worlds collide when I discovered that this book exists:  The blurb states:   ‘Heroic Disobedience shows the ways in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels used what the author terms…