{"id":1104,"date":"2017-06-09T08:53:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2017-06-12T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T22:01:12","slug":"not-your-grandmothers-morning-funnies-dr-jessica-motherwell-on-bias-fighting-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/not-your-grandmothers-morning-funnies-dr-jessica-motherwell-on-bias-fighting-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Grandmother&#8217;s Morning Funnies: Dr. Jessica Motherwell on bias-fighting comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.04.28-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1107\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.04.28-PM.png\" alt=\"Jessica Motherwell\" width=\"1197\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.04.28-PM.png 1197w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.04.28-PM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.04.28-PM-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.04.28-PM-1024x673.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1197px) 100vw, 1197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/drjessicamotherwell.ca\">Dr. Jessica Motherwell<\/a>, comics can be\u00a0about a lot\u00a0more than Monday-hating cats and boys with sling-shots.<\/p>\n<p>Motherwell, a Justice Institute of BC (JIBC) lecturer and counsellor, recently led a project where students used a comic-book-making app to identify strategies for combatting sexism and homophobia. Even more impressive: they did it all in under ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Come to <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/presenters-2017\/\">her SkIP session<\/a>, co-led by JIBC\u00a0<span class=\"\">Instructional Designer<\/span>\u00a0Krista Lambert, on how sketching in the virtual space can be used to create a more inclusive world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dr. Jessica Motherwell, comics can be\u00a0about a lot\u00a0more than Monday-hating cats and boys with sling-shots. Motherwell, a Justice Institute of BC (JIBC) lecturer and counsellor, recently led a project where students used a comic-book-making app to identify strategies for combatting sexism and homophobia. Even more impressive: they did it all in under ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,49],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-comics","tag-jessica-motherwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}