Author Una has been invited to take part at this year’s BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival.

The weekend is entirely free and will feature provocative debate, new ideas, music and performance.

Una is author of Becoming Unbecoming, a devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt. Through image and text Becoming Unbecoming explores what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost.

Una’s latest comic book  Cree  (2018) was commissioned by New Writing North and Durham Book Festival. She is currently working on a second graphic novel,  Eve,  for Virago Press and is supported by ACE for two years of professional development.

Head to the Sage Gateshead website for more information.