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In this "man's world", she put up with a whole lot of crap. It was terrible. At the same time, I appreciate how she points out that it was the place they were in and the circumstances that made the men act this way.
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What a difficult, gorgeous and abidingly humane book. It really does deserve to win all the prizes. Observer I'm a Careful Person': An Interview with Kate Beaton - The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. 4 November 2015 . Retrieved 10 February 2018. The oil sands operate on stolen lands. Their pollution, work camps, and ever-growing settler populations continue to have serious social, economic, cultural, environmental, and health consequences for the indigenous communities in the region.Beth Dunn. "Interview with Kate Beaton". Bethdunn.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013 . Retrieved 17 February 2012. It’s 8am in Nova Scotia when we talk, and Beaton’s eldest child is racing around in pyjamas, trying to escape her dad. “Potty-training: it’s a land of tears and devastation,” says Beaton, now 39, rolling her eyes. a b c d Salkowitz, Rob (2022-09-27). "Kate Beaton's New Masterpiece Just Rewrote The Standard For Graphic Memoirs". Forbes . Retrieved 2022-11-07. As soon as I heard Kate Beaton was working on a memoir detailing her time in Northern Alberta, I was counting down the days until I could read it. While I do not know Kate personally, we’re the same age, we are both from Cape Breton and we were both in Fort McMurray around the same time (I arrived in 2007 and left in 2009). An ambitiously complex graphic narrative of a Nova Scotian woman’s experience working in the oil sands of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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I was hesitant to read this graphic novel thinking it might have a lot of horrible things happening to animals in the oil sands. Because she is so patient in setting up this context, the sexual and corporate politics emerge absolutely organically, without any sense of animus or agenda. This gives the book's lessons an incredible power, while stripping them of any dogma or point-scoring. In fact Beaton doesn't shy away from questioning her own complicity in the industry, and she also makes a point of stressing the numerous perfectly nice and reasonable people who also worked around her. issues still facing the Athabaskan Chipewyan First Nation, Fort McMurray, Mikisew Cree First Nation, as well as the Métis communities in Northern Alberta. There is a lot of history to try to understand….(Indigenous rights, misogyny, environmental issues, capitalism, the complexity of real people)….
a b "Nominations for the 2009 Joe Shuster Awards". The Joe Shuster Awards. 2 April 2009 . Retrieved 17 February 2012. I've had so many cool opportunities come across my desk as a result of Jeopardy!, things I could have never really imagined," they said. "I feel like my life is still in the process of changing because of Jeopardy!" The graphics… OMG….. it almost doesn’t even need to be said how incredibly talented Kate Beaton is as an artist too. Filled with expressions and emotions!! The worst part for me about being harassed here isn’t that people say shitty things…The worst thing is that your heart breaks.’ To be honest, I think the author was possibly TOO kind, in her approach. As far as I can tell, she can't easily be accused of telling an unbalanced story.
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Kate Beaton's comics are rich with quiet revelations, intimate details, and a deadpan, devastating sense of humor. A generous and illuminating book; I suspect it will stay on my mind for a very long time. Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley Not an excuse, no. But it shows that people are shaped by their environment and, in a less than stellar one, might act in ways they normally wouldn't. She didn't demonize all men because of her experience there but at the same time she showed how women suffer in toxic male environments - and are expected to just "deal with it" and not complain.a b c "Congratulations to the Harvey Award Recipients!". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 September 2012. King Baby (New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2016, ISBN 978-0545637541)
Ducks by Kate Beaton review – powerful big oil memoir
Am I defending them? I don’t know, just, they are still my people. Even at their worst, they’re more mine than she is”.Hunt, Stephen (2022-12-23). "Obama holiday reading list includes Kate Beaton graphic novel about Alberta oil sands". CTV News . Retrieved 2022-12-27.
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