{"id":1183,"date":"2017-06-16T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2017-06-16T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T21:25:39","slug":"pride-cancer-and-the-working-class-kara-sievewright-draws-it-all-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/pride-cancer-and-the-working-class-kara-sievewright-draws-it-all-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride, Cancer, and the Working Class: Kara Sievewright Draws It All Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1184\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kara.jpg\" alt=\"Pride Has Always Been Political Poster\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kara.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kara-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kara-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Kara-663x1024.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever thought drawing is just about making pretty pictures?<\/p>\n<p>Meet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/makerofnets.ca\/\">Kara Sievewright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrating the amazing power of her craft, Sievewright&#8217;s work is building awareness around not one but <em>three<\/em> different social issues: the queer and trans movement, Canadian labour history, and cancer patient identity.<\/p>\n<p>Sievewright, alongside Paul Buhle and the other members of the Graphic History Collective, were recently awarded the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quillandquire.com\/awards\/2017\/05\/30\/between-the-liness-graphic-novel-drawn-to-change-wins-2017-wilson-book-prize\/\">2017 Wilson Book Prize<\/a>\u00a0for their book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/btlbooks.com\/book\/drawn-to-change\">Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A contributor of the <a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/graphichistorycollective.com\/project\/poster-6-pride-always-political\">Radical History Poster Project<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">, Sievewright also recently released the amazing image above which aims to inspire social transformation by highlighting the radical roots of the Pride movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0As if that wasn&#8217;t enough, Sievewright is also presenting this weekend at the <a href=\"https:\/\/2017graphicmedicineseattle.sched.com\/event\/AzMz\">2017 Graphic Medicine Seattle<\/a> conference on her comic about cancer and queerness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Come to <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/presenters-2017\/\">her upcoming SkIP session<\/a> to learn more about how she is using drawing to redraw the world in so many different ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever thought drawing is just about making pretty pictures? Meet\u00a0Kara Sievewright. Demonstrating the amazing power of her craft, Sievewright&#8217;s work is building awareness around not one but three different social issues: the queer and trans movement, Canadian labour history, and cancer patient identity. Sievewright, alongside Paul Buhle and the other members of the Graphic History [&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":[55],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-kara-sievewright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}