The Imagine… redesign I purposely make less busy.
The woman as a hunter is a reimagining of women in an equitable culture.
Sna’chile ya means you honour me in Dalkelh and is meant as a way of saying thank you to the women of the world for all that they bring.
There is also some symbolism in the white stag itself that I wish to leave open to interpretation and as an exploration for those reading this to dive into.
Title: Indian Act in Comics – Bizzaro Marriages
This cover redesign particularly highlights the confusing misogyny that peppers the Indian Act and affects Indigenous women to this day.
Here I am exploring misogyny’s relationship to the policy of enfranchisement and how strange, awful, confusing it is.
I lay out one of the foundations of the enfranchisement that came to exist, where an Indigenous man could marry a non-Indigenous woman and she would gain status. This happened in my family when my mother of Irish, Austrian, Hungarian, and German roots became a member of the Tl’azt’en Nation. But, if an Indigenous woman married a non-Indigenous man, the same could not be expected. She would lose her status involuntarily.
I play with the idea of Bizarro from DC comics, Bizzaro being a character that said things but did the opposite. His main power was his ability to confuse. This, I think, is an apt description of government.
Inspiration cover
DC Comics Action Comics Vol 1 #255
August 1959
Cover Artists: Curt Swan, Stan Kaye
Writer: Otto Binder
Penciler: Al Plastino
Inker: Al Plastino
Editor: Mort Weisinger