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# Changing Minds – a new comic strip to fight misogyny hate crime
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/changing-minds-a-new-comic-strip-to-fight-misogyny-hate-crime/
- Published: 2020-07-06T08:01:35.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-06T06:49:47.000Z
- Description: Web-based cartoon aims to deliver a strong and accessible message about the real impact of harassment on the lives of women and girls in Nottingham city, county and beyond.
- Author: Contributor
- Tags: Arts, Community, Information, Mental Health, News, Hate Crime, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

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A new cartoon-style educational tool to help tackle the harassment of women and girls has been unveiled by experts from Nottingham’s two universities as part of a unique zero-tolerance strategy being pioneered throughout Nottinghamshire.

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The graphic novel-style comic strip, called

**[Changing Minds](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lipp/research-projects/educational-resources.aspx?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**,

has been created by language and criminology experts from the **University of Nottingham** and **Nottingham Trent University**, with Nottingham-based graphic art company **Dawn of the Unread**, run by **James Walker**, and artist **Kim Thompson**. It is available **[online](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lipp/research-projects/educational-resources.aspx?ref=scenemag.co.uk)** and as a free **[download](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/files/lipp/documents/misogyny-dotu-comic-final.pdf)**.

The Changing Minds comic, funded by **Research England** via the University of Nottingham’s **Institute for Policy and Engagement** in collaboration with **Nottingham Citizens**, is the latest part of a package of educational resources commissioned as part of the *Misogyny Hate Crime Report* published in 2018\. This research showed that 87% of people questioned believed it was a good idea to make misogyny a hate crime in Nottinghamshire.

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Louise Mullany, linguistics expert Professor from University of Nottingham’s School of English said: *‘The comic’s medium is a highly effective way of communicating these vital messages about the real-life impact of street harassment on women and girls, particularly to the minority of those men who feel peer pressure to behave like this in public spaces, including public transport.*

*‘We are appealing to teachers, educators and community leaders to use this resource to initiate discussion and debate to change these persistent and damaging cultural practices.’*

**Changing Minds is available [online](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lipp/research-projects/educational-resources.aspx?ref=scenemag.co.uk) and as a free [download](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/files/lipp/documents/misogyny-dotu-comic-final.pdf).**