As part of Sydney’s Climate Action week, regular comics gathering ‘Read to Me’ hosted an event to showcase illustrators, storytellers and activists to talk about the climate crisis. I was invited to create and showcase ‘Anthropomorphism’, a performed graphic “comic”, in which a pair of drawn Magpies become sentient. Awakening to their misrepresentation mid-performance, to the astonishment of both myself and viewer, the Magpies question the ethics of their being spoken for and the integrity of their author. Ultimately, the two birds decide that their creator must allow herself to be a vessel for them to speak through, and the performance climaxes with her “morphing” into a magpie, appearing before the audience in a large magpie head, through which the birds enact their message to the crowd. The multi-layered, meta narratives of authorship, place, and “newness” enact themselves through this experimental provocation to think about how we speak on behalf of those who cannot.