‘Skara’…….From ‘Unbound’…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…
by Bernie Bell - 08:56 on 18 December 2023
‘Skara’…..
I’d finished ‘Wild Stone Heart’ By Sharon Butala – which I strongly recommend. Looking along the bookshelves – wanted something I can really ‘get into’…Skara! I’ve only read them once. If I start the series now, it might take me nicely to when the next one is published? And – fitting for the time of year. Here goes!
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/11/16/book-review-the-illustrated-skara/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/11/08/skara-the-third-wave-by-andrew-appleby/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/08/02/skara-the-fourth-wave/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/08/03/poetry-corner-bull/
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From ‘Unbound’….
“THE UNWINDING CARDS
Jackie Morris
A collection of 100 illustrated postcards featuring artwork and words from Jackie's best-selling ‘The Unwinding’.
'A quiet masterpiece... a love story, a hope story, a story out of time, out of structure'.
Maria Popova
The front of each card features one of Jackie’s paintings from the book; on the back, there is short quote, spell or poem from the book plus space for you to write, draw or paint messages which you can send to spread peace and beauty to the people you love and care about. Inspired by dreams and wishes, these cards will ease the soul and offer respite from an increasingly frantic and complex world. Including new words and illustrations, this postcard box will be an elegant work of art in its own right, as useful as it is beautiful.
'So, this is our new venture. 100 cards in a beautiful box, to send or to keep. You can frame them, paper the walls with them, write dreams on them or wishes, send them out across the world or invite a neighbour for supper, use them to write the shortest stories on and leave around town for people to find…..the only limit is your own imagination.'
Jackie Morris
WOMEN WHO WON: 70 EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN WHO RESHAPED POLITICS
Ros Ball
'If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair'
Shirley Chisholm
Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister? That Tina Anselmi was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in Italy? Or that Sylvie Kinigi of Burundi was the first woman to serve as a prime minister in Africa? It is high time these extraordinary women who helped shape our world became household names, and this book brings them at last to the fore.
‘Women Who Won’ is a celebration of 70 women from the last 100 years: politicians from around the globe who fought for election in a man’s world… and won. Beautifully illustrated by artist Emmy Lupin, it features well-known figures, including Kamala Harris, Benazir Bhutto, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Jacinda Ardern and Julia Gillard, alongside lesser-known women whose stories are ready to be heard:
Shidzue Katō, one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan
Yulia Tymoshenko, the first woman prime minister of Ukraine
Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the US Congress
Peri-Khan Sofieva, the first democratically elected Muslim woman
Ethel Blondin-Andrew, the first Indigenous woman elected to Canadian parliament
Women of the past, but also women of the present and future. Women who smashed the political glass ceiling. Women who fought to leave a positive legacy for future generations. Women who paved the way for girls of today to become women who won.
‘I hope more than anything that this book is a way for women and girls who are interested in politics to imagine themselves in the shoes of these ancestors, and ultimately to see themselves as taking up those roles in the future. I hope very much that some of you reading this book will one day become women who won.'
Ros Ball was born in Bedfordshire and studied at Goldsmiths College in London. She spent many years as a journalist at the BBC in Westminster and you can usually still see her short films in the gaps between parliamentary sittings on BBC Parliament. Ros has previously worked on policy for women and girls. In 2017 she published her first book, The Gender Agenda, a two-year diary of the way the world treats her daughter and son differently. Ros works for the civil service. You can find her on Instagram @ros.ball
Emmy is a Nottingham based illustrator working under the moniker Emmy Lupin Studio. Specialising in digital illustration that's big on pattern and colour, Emmy’s work is inspired by looking at life through a female lens. Emmy’s worked with brands such as Adidas, TikTok, Stylist Magazine, Galaxy and SEGA to name a few. In May 2023 Emmy opened her own illustration studio and shop in Nottingham selling her prints and illustrated giftware, and in this space she works on commissions and runs workshops. Find her on Instagram @emmylupinstudio
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…
“The Stories I Haven’t Been Told
by Jamie Figueroa
“I listened to what rose up to my awareness, touched my own lineage, getting at what was behind and beneath, to all those who dwelled within me, my constellation of origin.”
Archival silences—gaps in cultural or ancestral records, histories never told—can be deliberate, political, oppressive. Some stories are absent because they were unspeakable, so traumatic was their nature. How can we work at the edges of what is knowable to usher stories out of their silence, reassemble shards of memory, reclaim lost identity, and give voice to those who have been marginalized by the authoritative sweep of history?
This week, Afro-Taína author Jamie Figueroa brings her pen to the pages of her family’s history, reaching into her own archive of silence formed and fragmented by intergenerational trauma. Exploring writing as a tool of revelation and reclamation, she works to bring unspoken experiences of forced assimilation into a white colonist culture to the fore. As she uncovers the inherited wounds of her ancestors housed in her own body, she remembers her way into the landscapes and cultural memories that bring together pieces of her identity.
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Here’s one I made earlier….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/18/spaghetti-alla-puttanesca/
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