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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2022

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Kathryn Moira Beaton (born 8 September 1983) is a Canadian comics artist best known as the creator of the comic strip Hark!

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton | Goodreads

The book is named after a disaster in which hundreds of ducks died after landing in a toxic tailings pond. She creates an indelible portrait of environmental degradation, fraught interpersonal relationships among a workforce largely disconnected from home, and greedy corporations that seem only vaguely aware of the difficult work’s effect on their employees. Even in her most elaborate sequences, she managed to give the deceptive impression that she had happened purely by accident upon precisely the right line to communicate a haughty glare or an embarrassed slouch.I grew up listening to songs and reading stories about migrant labour before I had a complete understanding about the cycle of that kind of work.

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The women are uniformly Crumbian, voluptuous Earth goddesses who are both sexualized and strong-willed. One of the most moving things for me about reading Ducks was something Beaton didn’t include in this book.I try to remember that there are a lot of men who just never speak to me, or never bother me," she reflects. Katie first rolls in, hunched and groggy on a pre-dawn bus, to see a shock of towers, flames and fumes blaring out of the darkness. The American Library Association listed Ducks among their top ten in the 2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults list.

Ducks by Kate Beaton | Waterstones

The harassment is persistent to the point that men try to enter her room, and it is a severe drain on her physical and mental state. Especially in the camps where she keeps her door locked and hears men try to open it in the middle of the night (another woman says one time a man hid in her closet and jumped out at her), and how being taken advantage of while drunk is viewed as being her own fault—even her own friend accuses her of trying to make regrettable sex seem like an assault instead of owning her own decisions.

Beaton anticipates that the reader, too, may be reluctant to think about such things, and so she approaches her subject from unexpected directions. They’re pretty isolated, you often have to live on-site, and there are 50 male workers for every female worker.

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