A Graphic Memoir of Working in Oil Sands

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 10, 2022

After finding herself saddled with lots of student debt from her undergraduate degree, Kate Beaton decided to attempt to pay them off by working in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada. But when she gets there, she finds herself shocked by the working conditions, racism and misogyny, and rampant corporate misconduct. Beaton recounts this time in her life in her new graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.

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