Claudia Chinyere Akole is an exhibiting artist, freelance illustrator, cartoonist, designer, animator, and educator based in Sydney, Australia (unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal Peoples of the Eora Nation). She works as a graphic designer in TV broadcast, as a freelance illustrator, and creates comics and illustrations in her personal practice. She’s an art hag who bleeds pink.
Wow. Full on. I’m not quite sure what to say. My sister openly posted a link to this and I was curious. Here I am yawning (past bed time) and hooked, reading the entire work in one hit.
I was compelled to ask a question. Please educate me. I noticed that there was Black and there was Blak and Bla(c)k. I’ve never seen this before and I’d like to learn the meanings and the differences please. In not knowing what this is, anytime I read the word black (or blak or bla(c)k), I just read it as black for the time being. I apologise if that is incorrect, no one has shown me any different, hence I wanted to comment, more so ask.
I have always repeated a phrase that I would’ve learnt from one of my school teachers, “readers are leaders!” Ringing true again today, by reading this I’ve learnt a few things and I’m about to learn the answer to the above too.
Thank you for sharing your life account so openly. It’s valuable.
Oh my god. This comic is incredible. I had to read it over and over again. Thank you so much for sharing these stories and for connecting these histories together with such beautiful, powerful drawings and language. Everyone should read this comic. I will be sending copies to my friends.
Also to Chucky, I’d encourage you to Google the definition of the bla(c)k movement to reclaim language from colonisers! It’s really easy to do this and it took me three seconds. No shade intended, but definitely Google things like this over asking people to educate you.
Hello Claudia,
Wow. Full on. I’m not quite sure what to say. My sister openly posted a link to this and I was curious. Here I am yawning (past bed time) and hooked, reading the entire work in one hit.
I was compelled to ask a question. Please educate me. I noticed that there was Black and there was Blak and Bla(c)k. I’ve never seen this before and I’d like to learn the meanings and the differences please. In not knowing what this is, anytime I read the word black (or blak or bla(c)k), I just read it as black for the time being. I apologise if that is incorrect, no one has shown me any different, hence I wanted to comment, more so ask.
I have always repeated a phrase that I would’ve learnt from one of my school teachers, “readers are leaders!” Ringing true again today, by reading this I’ve learnt a few things and I’m about to learn the answer to the above too.
Thank you for sharing your life account so openly. It’s valuable.
Oh my god. This comic is incredible. I had to read it over and over again. Thank you so much for sharing these stories and for connecting these histories together with such beautiful, powerful drawings and language. Everyone should read this comic. I will be sending copies to my friends.
Also to Chucky, I’d encourage you to Google the definition of the bla(c)k movement to reclaim language from colonisers! It’s really easy to do this and it took me three seconds. No shade intended, but definitely Google things like this over asking people to educate you.