Look look! It’s a new publication! This is my comics-based piece appearing in Leaving the Field, edited by Robin James Smith and Sara Delamont. This was one of those projects that was a pleasure to write because the editors were so very lovely from start …
Well, now is your chance! Call for Proposals The editors of Pedagogy, Culture & Society invite colleagues in the field to submit proposals for Special Issues on themes of interest to scholars and researchers within the areas of the journal’s aims and scope. Typically, Special …
Update: We had a fantastic time. Look for the link to the recorded webinar here soon!
On August 7th at 12pm Pacific Time, the Film and Media Round Table (a unit of the American Library Association) is going to have a webinar focused on youth-created media.
In short presentations and a panel discussion, Tim O’Leary (Director of the What’s the Story? The Young Filmmakers’ Social Action Team) and Dr. Sally Campbell Pirie (Professor of Child and Family Studies at UMass Amherst) will share their experiences and research related to youth created media as a form of research methodology and in the classroom. We will close this event with a Q&A from the audience, and attendees can expect to not only be engaged and delighted but also provided
with practical ideas related to media-making tools, assignments, and practices. Registration link.
As some of you folks know, I recently changed my last name. For lots of academic people, and especially women, the name game is one you can’t actually win. There is so much to say about women, about names, about cis-heteronormativity, history, tradition and patriarchy, …
You can see the whole project and learn more about the project and shows near you here, and follow Professor Moreau’s work, on this project and so many more here. You can read about all of the Anglia Ruskin University highlights here.
I was lucky enough to have selected pieces from the Crowbird project appearing in a virtual show at the Burnett Gallery in Amherst, MA this spring, alongside the stunning work of fellow Valley artist May Emery. While the larger project is an arts-based inquiry into the lives of children and their families during COVID, the pieces I included here are specifically about women and their children encountering intimate partner violence during the pandemic. In these analyses I focus on the drama of destruction and repair, and most of all the redemptive circuitry of love.
The songbirds, crows, and cowbirds that make up the majority of the images in Crowbird are metaphors for the clever resiliencies of vulnerable people. All of the images in Crowbird are created as old fashioned pen and ink drawings, and are then scanned, enlarged, and run as large full color prints. These prints are then torn into small pieces and painstakingly reassembled using a variety of repair techniques. If you look closely you can see the seams.
You can see the little show until the end of May 2023 here: https://www.joneslibrary.org/virtualburnett
This past May we were lucky enough to have Prof. Dr. Renate Kosuch visit to present our students with a short lecture on the Conflict-Focused Interview. This interview, and the analytic strategies one might apply to resultant data, are unique in qualitative inquiry because it …
Hey you guys, the glorious Vermont Folklife Center‘s Non Fiction Comics Fest featuring so many cool artists and thinkers and writers is going to be happening the weekend of October 14th! I’ll be there doing a workshop and some other stuff, but the real attraction …
Oh my goodness! I was interviewed for a very fancy podcast a few weeks ago and here it has emerged, just in time for Pride. It’s about art, and how to do research with children, about hard conversations, about decolonising our practices, about joyful awkwardness, about transformation and about healing. Have a listen.
S2 Ep. 19 Exploring PRIDE in HPP: Comics-Based Research with Sally Campbell Galman
In this episode, Dr. Campbell Galman helps us explore their new paper and the role of comics. They explain the process of moving from words to image, as well as the nuances of working with children. She describes wedges as simple machines for transgender and gender diverse children to tell their stories.
This episode features the article “Wedges: Stories as Simple Machines” by Sally Campbell Galman.
Stop barking up the tree that doesn’t care. Make art. Let go. Be healed.
Way back before the pandemic, so very long ago in the before times, I wrote and illustrated a book chapter to appear in this book: https://utorontopress.com/9781487524418/cool-anthropology/ The purpose of the book is really quite special: it’s about rethinking how we engage people in doing the …
