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Becoming Unbecoming

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This ordinary graphic novel is a powerful denunciation of sexual violence against women. As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic some of the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper turn out to be more urgent, a once self-confident Una teaches herself to “lower her gaze” so as to deflect attention from boys.

After she is “slut-shamed” at school for having birth keep an eye on pills, Una herself is the subject of violent acts for which she comes to blame herself. But as the police in the end catch up and identify the killer, Una grapples with the patterns of behavior that led her to imagine she was to blame.

Becoming Unbecoming combines quite a lot of styles, press clippings, photo-based illustrations, and splashes of color to convey Una’s sense of confusion and rage, as well as sobering statistics on sexual violence against women. The book is a no-holds-barred indictment of sexual violence against women and the shame and blame of its sufferers that also celebrates the empowerment of those able to gain keep an eye on over their selves and their bodies.

Una (a pseudonym) is an artist, academic, and comics author. Becoming Unbecoming, which took seven years to create, is her first book. She lives in the United Kingdom.

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