Autobiographical Comics with Katie Whittle
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For the My Body is Not Your Business campaign, Eleanor Thorndyke challenges an entire industry which tells people how they should look and that there is nothing but shame for those who don’t fit the frame. But as Eleanor reminds us, it’s a massive lie: There is no such thing as a bad body…
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As part of our Safe Spaces group online takeover and their My Body is Not Your Business campaign, Lucy Butler talks about how nobody should be forced to be an ambassador for their trauma.
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As part of our My Body is Not Your Business campaign, Safe Spaces group writer James serves up a powerful reminder that, contary to mainstream media depictions, the transmasculine body doesn’t solely exist as one size, shape, ability, or pigmentation - but a range of them. To every trans man we say: To heck with the noise! Be you. Own you. LOVE YOU.
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As if life isn’t tricky enough at the moment, it’s also hayfever season! As newspaper staff writer Katie Heyes explains, that can give you a whole host of uncomfortable, lethargic and frankly worrying symptoms to endure during a global pandemic - but there are still ways to rest, stay calm and slowly tackle your workload during it all.
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In our first awesome piece of Safe Spaces writing for our My Body is Not Your Business project, James talks about his own personal experiences with facing the challenges of body expectations as a trans man trying to navigate a space for himself within sports.
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In the latest piece from the ‘My Body is Not Your Business’ campaign, Lucy Butler talks about her own personal journey in rejecting society’s body standards and learning to love and celebrate the body at every size and shape.
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For our Safe Spaces online takeover, our young people have been reflecting on the various behaviours and spaces which bring them a sense of safety, protection, belonging, and calm. As Lucas Mannion explains, sometimes a safe space can involve something as simple as a set Sunday routine and a clean bedroom…
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None of us are having the best time during lockdown. But, as Comics Youth head honcho Rhiannon Griffiths explains, there are still things you can do to make this experience a little easier on yourself and to move forward with care and kindness…
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Exam results can feel like the end of the world. But as these plucky, dynamic characters prove, academia needn’t define your future and grades don’t define your value. You can still forge your own path beyond schooling, and absolutely thrive.
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Want to know how to make powerful works of activist art?! Comics Youth took a late-Summer trip to the Keith Haring exhibition at Tate Liverpool and this is everything we learned about making accessible art with a salient message.
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As it’s always a fine time to celebrate the ‘strange and unusual’ amongst us, we decided to celebrate five of our favourite spooky, weirdo characters who claim power from the things that mainstream society sees as ‘other’, weird and different!
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Broadcast live on Sun 14th June 2020! Everything is not cool, but it can be. This week's episode of Comics Youth Radio presents Lockdown! at the Disco is a Black Lives Matter special, full of helpful resources about how to fight racial injustice and white supremacy with a playlist of music by BAME artists such as Saul Williams, Big Joanie, Lauryn Hill, Gil Scott Heron, Pleasure Venom and more!
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