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Jo Nesbitt is a British illustrator, translator, and cartoonist. Most of her work focuses on women's issues, queer experience, and the intersectionality of both.
Nesbitt was born in Tyneside, England in the 1950s. Through her childhood years, she attended a Christian school for girls, which was run by nuns. In subsequent years, she attended London University to get a degree in English. Nesbitt moved to Holland in 1981, and she resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands since.
Growing up in the convent schooling system, Nesbitt came to be very familiar with religious imagery, such as the nun. She includes nuns along with other religious themes in many of her works, such as her contribution to Menstral Taboos and an illustration in her work The Desperate Woman's Guide to Diet and Exercise that depicts a nun laying on a sofa with grapes and wine saying, "Some vows I haven't taken..." [1] Plus, Lynn Alderson wrote that Nesbitt was "responsible for the wonderful nun/whales that could be seen swimming around the walls of Sisterbite – she had a bit of a thing for nuns." [2]
Due to the themes of feminism, queerness, and civil activism, Nesbitt's comics and illustrations often are featured as a part of larger feminist and queer works, such as Dyke Strippers, Gay Left Issue, and HERizons. Nesbitt also seemingly worked with the Sisterwrite book shop on multiple occasions, helping them set up the shop [2] and creating cartoons for their catalogue. [3] Nesbitt has a very consistent drawing style over most, if not all, of her works; whether she is making her own comic or drawing illustrations for someone else's book, she appears to put the same spirit into them all.
I Have Heard about You: Foreign Women’s Writing Crossing the Dutch Border: From Sappho to Selma Lagerlöf [4] by Suzanna van Dijk, translated by Jo Nesbitt
The Modern Ladies' Compendium [5] by Jo Nesbitt
Sourcream [8] by Jo Nesbitt, Liz Mackie, Christine Roche, and Lesley Ruda
The Great Escape of Doreen Potts [10] by Jo Nesbitt
The Desperate Woman's Guide to Diet and Exercise [12] by Jo Nesbitt
Menstrual Taboos [13] by the Matriarchy Study Group
A Feminist Sexual Politics: Now you see it, now you don't by Beatrix Cambell, illustrated by Jo Nesbitt
Birth Over 35 [16] by Sheila Kitzinger, illustrated by Jo Nesbitt
Second Class Disabled [17] by Irene Loach and Ruth Lister, illustrated by Jo Nesbitt and Sam Smith
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