Kate Beaton
Auteur van Hark! A Vagrant
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Fotografie: Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo 2011, photo by 5of7
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Werken van Kate Beaton
Sketchbook 7 exemplaren
Pendulous Breasts Quarterly 2 exemplaren
The Grand Old Duke of York 2 exemplaren
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Beaton, Kathryn
- Geboortedatum
- 1983-09-08
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Woonplaatsen
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Opleiding
- Mount Allison University (BA|History & Anthropology|2005)
- Beroepen
- comic book writer
- Relaties
- Murray, Morgan (spouse)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Doug Wright Award (2009)
Harvey Award (2011)
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
2010s (1)
Princess Tales (1)
Prijzen
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 13
- Ook door
- 12
- Leden
- 4,361
- Populariteit
- #5,752
- Waardering
- 4.2
- Besprekingen
- 247
- ISBNs
- 38
- Talen
- 6
- Favoriet
- 22
One of the first places she ends up at is Syncrude. She works as a tool crib attendant, learning how to do her job, watching the first of many safety videos, and getting to know the people. As is the case at every location she ends up at, she's one of a very small number of women working there, and painfully aware that all the men are looking at her. It's an odd, uncomfortable, and artificial environment. She knows that the loneliness and isolation of the oil sands contributes to it - any one of the people she grew up around could become just like one of the guys at these sites. It's not a great situation, and she knows it, but there isn't much she can do about it. If she complains, she's either ignored or viewed as troublemaker who can't work with the team.
As the volume progresses, she meets lots of different people - some decent, some not so much - and gets to know the complexities of the oil sands. Mental health issues and drugs are a huge issue among the workers but never talked about, unless a workplace injury makes it impossible to ignore, and even then the root of the problem is never addressed. The same goes for gendered violence. While the workers are doing what they can to get by, the oil companies they work for are damaging the environment, which in turn affects the indigenous people who live in the area.
Although she doesn't say so directly, in her afterword Beaton mentions her sister's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and I couldn't help but wonder if her time at the oil sands is what eventually led to her cancer. There are multiple mentions, throughout the volume, of things like the cough and weird rash that a lot of the workers get, even those who primarily work in offices.
This took a while to grow on me, but by the end it was tough reading. The rapes were chilling, despite nothing much being shown on-page, just Beaton mentally "going away" for a bit. I wanted her to keep her museum job for longer (she looked so happy). I had a little blip of happiness when I recognized that period of time she started her webcomic, but mixed in with everything else, it just became sadness.
Extras:
A 3-page afterword by the author.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)… (meer)