BECOMING UNBECOMING

A devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, se
t against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt.It's 1977 and Una
is twelve. A serial murderer is at large in West Yorkshire and the police are st
ruggling to solve the case - despite spending more than two million man-hours hu
nting the killer and interviewing the man himself no less than nine times.Throug
h image and text Becoming Unbecoming explores what it means to grow up in a cult
ure where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hi
ndsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and
challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its co
st.