In conversations with my peers, and through my own experiences, I have discovered that identifying as a feminist elicits complicated, confusing and often disturbing responses:
Category: Equality
These amazing young people from South Bristol with support from Gill Simmons of Brave Bold Drama, choreographer Vic Hole of 2’Oclock Beauty Queens & film-maker Anna Haydock-Wilson devised a dance piece.
On the 29th October 2018 we met lets of lovely young people aged 8-18 from Hartcliffe at the Room13 Harclive studio in Spike Island Arts. We played some games with words to encourage us to share our opinions and our voices and made some posters.
Lizzie Philps and Anna Haydock-Wilson in converstation We have been researching at the Women’s Art…
I first came across Jo Spence in the 1980’s when I was about to graduate…
There’s a temptation to aspire to be ‘one of the lads’ and hope that no-one will notice that we are female and will judge our work on it’s own merit. But the art world is dominated by men at a high level and programmers and curators might say ‘we’ve got one of those this season’ which they might not say about ‘straight, white, middle-class men’. If we accept that challenges exist, we can start working with other women towards equality.
Art within the Cracks 