This is an introduction podcast as well as a tribute to George Floyd and other black people that have lost their lives to senseless, racially motivated violence.

Resources:
USA Police Brutality information - mappingpoliceviolence.org
Rio De Janeiro information - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51220364 - https://www.instagram.com/taliriapetrone/
Police Brutality in the UK - https://leftfootforward.org/2020/06/five-shocking-stats-about-police-brutality-in-the-uk/ 
French Police Brutality - https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/12/876267999/we-re-not-racist-french-police-say-they-re-being-unfairly-criticized?t=1592218745284

I Can't Breathe

Quick little podcast trailer! If I get my interview by tomorrow or Wednesday I will be uploading a very exciting interview next Monday 💯

Podcast Intro

Illustrator and graphic designer Danica has recently finished an MA at Anglia Ruskin University. Originally from Goa, India she completed her BFA at the Goa College of Arts school and specialised in illustration in her final year there.

The Goa School of Arts is very traditional with a lot of focus on advertising and a heavy focus on the technique of hand painting. It wasn’t until her one month residency in New York that she gained a real insight into the industry of illustration and also her passion for children’s picture books. After her residency in New York, she freelanced for around two years, before finally taking a masters at Anglia Ruskin’s University to further her expertise in children’s picture books.

During her time freelancing in India she noticed the publishing industry is not as big as it is in the US or UK and therefore, gave no representation of diverse protagonists in children’s books in India. She reflected that as a child her children’s books showed only white people as the main characters. Danica wants to change this reality and someday have her books published so girls and boys in India have characters they can relate to.

Danica is now working on two new projects. The first one being an illustration for a campaign that speaks about the ill-effects of three linear intrusion projects planned to go through a protected forest area in Goa. And secondly, Danica is at the research stage of a new exciting potential picture book about Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest classical dances of india, which she practiced for 8 years as a child. 

As well as these projects Danica gave an exciting announcement that she is signed to Illo Agency. Illo is an agency, which celebrates diverse illustrators, who want diverse stories in illustration and are doing so by promoting the likes of Danica.  

Danica is fighting for her cultural expression and is taking every opportunity that she can to do so. She is celebrating her country and her state in a very unique format, one which I think is brilliant. Fighting to have a voice in such a white-washed industry like children’s book publishing is going to continue to be a battle, but thanks to creators like Danica, young children of colour are finally going to be exposed to more character and cultural representation.

The Importance Of Cultural Illustration

A privileged white woman listening to Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women’s voices. I want to be a feminist who is truly fighting for the equal rights of ALL women and celebrate the efforts BAME women make to strive for types of equality that I have never had to think about.

The Caucacity