Laura Sorvala ✏️
@laurasorvala.bsky.social
Illustrator and graphic recorder with a knack for translating ideas into delightful visuals. Live event scribe, idea illustrator, comic artist, research collaborator. www.laurasorvala.com
When not drawing: Dog mum, DnD player, allotment beginner. She/her.
When not drawing: Dog mum, DnD player, allotment beginner. She/her.
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Looking forward to presenting a case study of our project, Guidance for Life, Work and Career at the @thecdi.bsky.social annual conference. The amazing artwork for our project has been created by the hugely talented @laurasorvala.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Looking forward to presenting a case study of our project, Guidance for Life, Work and Career at the @thecdi.bsky.social annual conference. The amazing artwork for our project has been created by the hugely talented @laurasorvala.bsky.social
No cheating, last photo of your pet
August 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM
No cheating, last photo of your pet
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(Draft page snapped straight from the monitor but) if you speak good/native French, Mandarin Chinese, German or Hungarian, I’d really appreciate a spell/grammar check for my Google-translated headlines. Thank you!
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
(Draft page snapped straight from the monitor but) if you speak good/native French, Mandarin Chinese, German or Hungarian, I’d really appreciate a spell/grammar check for my Google-translated headlines. Thank you!
Just turned down a project proposal request where the organisation had defined the rate and how long it would take to do the work. Site visit, running workshops and producing a narrative illustrated trail. All this at £175/half day, 3.5 days. Creative work isn’t a fast production line!
August 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Just turned down a project proposal request where the organisation had defined the rate and how long it would take to do the work. Site visit, running workshops and producing a narrative illustrated trail. All this at £175/half day, 3.5 days. Creative work isn’t a fast production line!
Looking to visualise customer feedback? Here's an example of how I took residents' wishes for a new community facility and drew it into an inspiring visual summary. Now the client is using the illustration to guide more conversation and decision making, see how on their website: lnkd.in/e6bsjztk
June 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Looking to visualise customer feedback? Here's an example of how I took residents' wishes for a new community facility and drew it into an inspiring visual summary. Now the client is using the illustration to guide more conversation and decision making, see how on their website: lnkd.in/e6bsjztk
Absolute gem of a post in our local FB marketplace (I live in a small South Valleys town). Anyone wanting witch cat vibes, lemme know and I can hook you up
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Absolute gem of a post in our local FB marketplace (I live in a small South Valleys town). Anyone wanting witch cat vibes, lemme know and I can hook you up
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Drawing is hell, every moment is holding your breath and fearing a single line going wrong, destroying an hour's work, while your brain screams that it's rubbish, not paying the bills and you should give up.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
For most media the audience aren't the customers: they are the product that is delivered to the customers.
For most media the audience aren't the customers: they are the product that is delivered to the customers.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re really not clear on what religion IS. At all.
We’re really not clear on what religion IS. At all.
June 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Drawing is hell, every moment is holding your breath and fearing a single line going wrong, destroying an hour's work, while your brain screams that it's rubbish, not paying the bills and you should give up.
While I struggle with episodes of health issues and low energy, I fully appreciate the times I have the capacity to do stuff. Like, make a pond in the back garden, complete its pebble slope for critter friends (one can hope).
May 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
While I struggle with episodes of health issues and low energy, I fully appreciate the times I have the capacity to do stuff. Like, make a pond in the back garden, complete its pebble slope for critter friends (one can hope).
Been toiling away at the allotment this week, busy time! Successes and failures: Tomatoes going strong, my neighbour Ray is supplying me with rain water from his tap system, peas are flowering, planted calabrese and sweetcorn.
May 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Been toiling away at the allotment this week, busy time! Successes and failures: Tomatoes going strong, my neighbour Ray is supplying me with rain water from his tap system, peas are flowering, planted calabrese and sweetcorn.
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🌍 The bilingual #Intergenerational #ClimateComic Activity Book is here! Co-created with and for schools, care homes & communities in South Wales
🖍️ Packed with creative activities + free templates (incl. large format)
🎨 Illustrated by @laurasorvala.bsky.social
👉 free download www.climatecomic.co.uk
🖍️ Packed with creative activities + free templates (incl. large format)
🎨 Illustrated by @laurasorvala.bsky.social
👉 free download www.climatecomic.co.uk
Home | Climate Comic
www.climatecomic.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🌍 The bilingual #Intergenerational #ClimateComic Activity Book is here! Co-created with and for schools, care homes & communities in South Wales
🖍️ Packed with creative activities + free templates (incl. large format)
🎨 Illustrated by @laurasorvala.bsky.social
👉 free download www.climatecomic.co.uk
🖍️ Packed with creative activities + free templates (incl. large format)
🎨 Illustrated by @laurasorvala.bsky.social
👉 free download www.climatecomic.co.uk
Live drawing today about all things digital health and innovation for @cardiffuni.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Live drawing today about all things digital health and innovation for @cardiffuni.bsky.social
Been busy beavering away drawing posters about research findings and service processes. After months of health issues I’ve been able to get back to the allotment again so tune away now if you don’t want to see allotment photos (who are you kidding, of course you do)
May 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Been busy beavering away drawing posters about research findings and service processes. After months of health issues I’ve been able to get back to the allotment again so tune away now if you don’t want to see allotment photos (who are you kidding, of course you do)
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An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
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hey hello this ~fabulous~ gold crow and skull reduction lino print is now available on my website. Limited edition of *only 6* printed yesterday. "Birth (I smash your skull)". get em while they're hot!
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/birt...
#printmaking #art #witchsky #bsnm #crow
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/birt...
#printmaking #art #witchsky #bsnm #crow
April 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
hey hello this ~fabulous~ gold crow and skull reduction lino print is now available on my website. Limited edition of *only 6* printed yesterday. "Birth (I smash your skull)". get em while they're hot!
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/birt...
#printmaking #art #witchsky #bsnm #crow
shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/birt...
#printmaking #art #witchsky #bsnm #crow
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"The survey reveals a sector that is underfunded, under resourced and under the radar. Women’s and girls’ organisations face considerable pressures, often disproportionately so, compared with the wider charity sector": @probonoecon.bsky.social. www.probonoeconomics.com/underfunded-...
Underfunded, under resourced and under the radar: The state of the women and girls’ social sector
Women and girls’ charities are under intense strain — facing rising need and shrinking resources, even beyond the challenges experienced by the wider social sector. Read our new research by Dr Beth Ki...
www.probonoeconomics.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"The survey reveals a sector that is underfunded, under resourced and under the radar. Women’s and girls’ organisations face considerable pressures, often disproportionately so, compared with the wider charity sector": @probonoecon.bsky.social. www.probonoeconomics.com/underfunded-...
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As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social says here, there's a long history of singling out ethnic groups as scapegoats for crime. These efforts are always based in lies, with nothing but racism at their heart.
All these league tables will do is fuel violence and hatred.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dog-wh...
All these league tables will do is fuel violence and hatred.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dog-wh...
Exclusive: Ministers Accused Of 'Dog Whistle Politics' Over Plan To Publish Nationalities Of Foreign Criminals
Labour have been accused of "feeding further division, dehumanisation and prejudice in our communities".
buff.ly
April 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social says here, there's a long history of singling out ethnic groups as scapegoats for crime. These efforts are always based in lies, with nothing but racism at their heart.
All these league tables will do is fuel violence and hatred.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dog-wh...
All these league tables will do is fuel violence and hatred.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dog-wh...
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Thanks to support from the trans community and its allies we are now advertising for a full time equalities solicitor.
Trans people know they are at the thin end of fascism. If you're a lawyer, here's how you help them fight back. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...
Trans people know they are at the thin end of fascism. If you're a lawyer, here's how you help them fight back. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...
Senior Associate - Equalities Law | Good Law Project
Join the team at Good Law Project
goodlawproject.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Thanks to support from the trans community and its allies we are now advertising for a full time equalities solicitor.
Trans people know they are at the thin end of fascism. If you're a lawyer, here's how you help them fight back. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...
Trans people know they are at the thin end of fascism. If you're a lawyer, here's how you help them fight back. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/seni...
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Here is something you can do to take action and support trans people to exist and live peacefully like everyone else, as they should be able to:
April 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here is something you can do to take action and support trans people to exist and live peacefully like everyone else, as they should be able to:
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I wonder whether this is also why UK courts are so reluctant to hear from trans people. They harbour a belief, unacknowledged even to themselves, that to be trans is to lack the ability to make decisions about your own life. It's akin to how White nations once thought about Black and Brown people.
you can change your name under 21 with parental permission if you’re cis, but trans folks aren’t mature enough.
trans people are ~1.3% of the US, with no community wealth or institutional power.
they’ll take as much from trans folks as the rest of you decide not to stand in the way of them taking.
trans people are ~1.3% of the US, with no community wealth or institutional power.
they’ll take as much from trans folks as the rest of you decide not to stand in the way of them taking.
April 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I wonder whether this is also why UK courts are so reluctant to hear from trans people. They harbour a belief, unacknowledged even to themselves, that to be trans is to lack the ability to make decisions about your own life. It's akin to how White nations once thought about Black and Brown people.
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The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
goodlawproject.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Want something positive to look at and learn with on this Earth Day?
Go have a look at our Climate Comic Activity Pack, a free resource with printouts for all sorts of climate and sustainability related things to do: www.climatecomic.co.uk
#EarthDay #ClimateChange @merrynthomas.bsky.social
Go have a look at our Climate Comic Activity Pack, a free resource with printouts for all sorts of climate and sustainability related things to do: www.climatecomic.co.uk
#EarthDay #ClimateChange @merrynthomas.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Want something positive to look at and learn with on this Earth Day?
Go have a look at our Climate Comic Activity Pack, a free resource with printouts for all sorts of climate and sustainability related things to do: www.climatecomic.co.uk
#EarthDay #ClimateChange @merrynthomas.bsky.social
Go have a look at our Climate Comic Activity Pack, a free resource with printouts for all sorts of climate and sustainability related things to do: www.climatecomic.co.uk
#EarthDay #ClimateChange @merrynthomas.bsky.social
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If you read or make comics in the UK, read the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report, asking DCMS for investment in comics.
Tell your friends about it: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of-Comics
And add your name to the list of supporters: forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...
Tell your friends about it: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of-Comics
And add your name to the list of supporters: forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...
The Comics Cultural Impact Collective
We believe comics have an important place in our culture, one worthy of celebration and support, and we're here to prove it.
thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org
April 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you read or make comics in the UK, read the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s report, asking DCMS for investment in comics.
Tell your friends about it: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of-Comics
And add your name to the list of supporters: forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...
Tell your friends about it: thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of-Comics
And add your name to the list of supporters: forms.gle/mk6iTZK9yUDV...
Sign! Share!
Be amazing if £1.5m could be invested in the UK comics scene, wouldn’t it? Someone’d need to build a fully-costed, well-reasoned argument to DCMS for such a thing first, I guess…
WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...
WELL, NOW. Come see what your friends at CCIC have done! www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/CCIC%20DCMS%...
April 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sign! Share!
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Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵
April 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Are Wes Streeting and NHS England covering up trans suicide data? 🧵