Last week Iranian cartoonist Ali, aka Mr. Eaten Fish, was awarded the Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award by the Cartoonist Rights Network International (CRNI). It will be presented at convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in Durham, North Carolina on September 24, 2016, and accepted by Australian poet and human rights worker, Janet Galbriath, on behalf of…
Women in British Animation: Thalma Goldman Cohen
“Sex has become very commercialized. But people are moving away from cheapness, it abuses them.” —Thalma Goldman Cohen In 1976, Screen International cast an eye over the position of women filmmakers in Britain. “If British Cinema, to its shame, can boast few female directors as yet,” read the article, “one field in which women…
Transfiguring Adoption: How Harry Potter Helped Me Survive My Experience in Care
Growing up I was an avid reader and often used books to escape my reality, a reality that included a mentally ill, abusive mother and an absent father. In grade two our teacher started reading a book about a young boy with shaggy hair and a scar in the shape of a lighting bolt and…
Thursday Book Beat: The ‘Girl’, the Cursed Child Rumours, and Some Literary Awards, Oh My
Hi WWAC readers and all my fellow contributors, Ashley here and I’m taking over the Thursday Book Beat column for a while. Thank you Angel and fellow writers for all your contributions, I read your articles with delight and hope to contribute and inject as much personality in my writing as you do. So here…