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I just saved you – does it matter what I look like? Reading and discussing feminist fairy tales with a group of 12-year-old girls
Get PDFUsing a post-structural lens which situates gender as discursively produced, this study investigates how four 12-year-old girls read feminist fairy tales and what feminist issues and concerns they discern and relate to in these texts. The study used a dialogic approach in Action Research informed reading groups to stimulate their thinking and explore their experience of gender constraints. The article explores how the girls drew on discourses and discursive practices to position themselves in relation to the texts, often breaking the frame of the text and creating ‘counter-fictionals’ and using performativity to construct their versions of femininity. The author argues that the book group acted as a liminal space that allowed the girls a safe space for exploring and subverting gender constructs and constraints
Intersectionality and Social Movements: A Comparison of Environmentalist and Disability Rights Movements
Get PDFDemands for intersectional organising have long been a priority for Black feminists, and in recent years it has also been taken up by a wide variety of social movement actors operating across different contexts. Analysing and actualising intersectionality as a strategic and generative tool presents a series of theoretical and empirical challenges and opportunities. In this article, we think through and about intersectionality in relation to two different social movements in the UK: the environmentalist movement and the disability rights movement. Discourse analysis undertaken of a range of groups’ websites indicate that intersectional frameworks undergird some aspects of the ways that these two movements organise. We reflect on the ways that intersectional discourse is taken up by some groups within both movements to situate their politics. We also examine how intersectional frameworks shape some groups’ framing of the issues under their ownership, and who the labour of intersectional organising falls to (more often than not) women of colour
Gender, Disability and Political Representation: Understanding the Experiences of Disabled Women
Get PDFWomen face multiple barriers during political recruitment and representational processes. Concomitantly, a burgeoning scholarship has revealed the existence of various obstacles to elected office faced by disabled people. While studies have examined the intersections between gender, race and class, we know little about how the intersection between disability and gender shapes people’s experiences. This article provides an exploratory case-study analysis of the UK. We centre the perspectives of disabled women in our analysis, drawing upon qualitative interviews undertaken with 41 disabled women candidates, politicians and party activists, as well as participant observation of online events organised to discuss disabled women and elected office. Three themes emerged from this research: first, disabled women feel that they are perceived as ‘not up to the job’; second, disabled women are ‘othered’ during recruitment processes; and, third, hyper-visibility experienced by some, but not all, disabled women can be experienced positively but mainly negatively
Trade secrets as a complementary tool to patenting in the data economy of the 21st century
No full textThis book chapter addresses the challenge of protecting data in the evolving data economy, focusing on trade secrets as a complementary tool to patents. It examines the impact of the growing importance of data on patenting practices, including licensing, and suggests that the traditional legal system may need to be adapted to accommodate new forms of intellectual property. The chapter argues for incremental changes rather than a complete overhaul of the intellectual property protection system, predicting that trade secrets will play a significant role in 21st-century patenting by providing protection for a broader range of intellectual assets. Recommendations for modernizing intellectual property protection are given
Sussex Modernism
No full textWolf, Hope, ed. Sussex Modernism. 2025. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 279-281. ISBN 9780300244618 [Book Section]
A look at how artists and writers harnessed the landscapes, cultures, and histories of their locations to reimagine how art should be made and life lived
Hope Wolf explores a breadth of work by over 70 artists associated with different modernist movements who either visited or resided in Sussex. Well-known figures, including Virginia Woolf, Jacob Epstein, David Jones, Gluck, Edward Burra, and Lee Miller, are joined by countercultural artists of the 1960s–1980s, women artists whose power was regional rather than national, as well as the voices of modernism’s opponents. Offering a new history of modernism, this book intertwines literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, textiles, music, and domestic decoration across a period of over 100 years. Revealing how artists drew on their environments to promote psychic and social change, Sussex Modernism is a book of jostling perspectives on art, place and politics.
Becky Beasley’s 2017 installation Ous and 2021 installation H. S. P. (or Promising Mid-career Woman) is discussed in the publication (p. 279-281)
Appropriating Technology for Interactive Media in Theatre: Design Strategies and Aesthetic Insights
Get PDFThis paper investigates interactive media design as a narrative agent in theatrical performance through a practice-based design approach. We clarify the role of the Interaction Director in the production team and examine challenges in appropriating technology for theatrical interaction design. A two-layer workflow is proposed, integrating macro-scale conceptual design with micro-scale cue-to-cue interaction mapping. We address the mutual dependency among creative disciplines, highlighting the collaborative processes necessary to resolve conflicts during the design and rehearsal stages. Furthermore, we adopt a scenographic perspective to analyse how interactive media contributes to dramaturgical storytelling by crafting visual and auditory metaphors. We contextualize interaction design with reader- response theory and the horizon of expectations, demonstrating how interactive media fosters collaborative creativity and expands the narrative potential of theatrical storytelling
Using creative writing to fuel creativity
No full textThis chapter will examine the ways in which creative writing can be taught and the uses it can be put to in different educational and learning contexts. In particular, it will explore research-informed, deeply theorised pedagogical strategies which enable learners to benefit from creative writing. It will argue that creative writing needs to be nurtured by adopting ‘flow’ activities. These states are achieved when humans undertake ‘painful, risky, difficult activities that stretch the person’s capacity and involve an element of novelty and discovery’ (Csikseztmihaliyi 110). With creative writing this involves teaching people to freewrite and understand why & how freewriting works as a foundation. The chapter will explore the cultural history around this area, as well as drawing from the author’s own significant teaching experience in schools and universities. The chapter will show how freewriting and other ‘flow’ activities centred around writing can be utilised in many different learning contexts, and seek to put the case that creative writing should be used in many different fields, including science, psychotherapy, formal research and the arts and humanities
#WeAreViable, aren’t we? Music careers, state support, and the political feasibility of a Basic Income for the Arts
Get PDFDuring Covid-19 in the United Kingdom, many musicians failed to qualify for income support, leading the Government to announce it would only “support viable jobs”. This implication that creative work was not viable angered many, leading to the hashtag #WeAreViable on X (formerly Twitter) to defend the musical economy. However, given evidence concerning musicians’ incomes, are musical careers, in fact, viable? Have they ever been? This paper critically interrogates notions of artistic career sustainability by adopting a historical case-study approach to explore how being a musician in the UK has always required forms of subsidy given unpredictable and poor financial returns. Following the systematic destruction of many of these systems of support, this paper then asks whether or not the Basic Income for the Arts represents a suitable mechanism to fill this gap, systematically evaluating the concept through the typology of ‘political feasibility’, ultimately suggesting that it is not
SLUG
Get PDFSLUG is a drawing that I made in my residency at the Women’s Art Library (WAL), Goldsmiths, University of London as a result of an ‘Art in the Archive Bursary’, a collaboration between the Women’s Art Library and Feminist Review. The theme of the bursary was ‘A Slow Return’. The drawing is almost five metres long, made on tracing paper with marker pen and watercolour paint. Each slug contains or is made up of fragmented quotes from artists I came across in the Women’s Art Library, as well as my own reflections on time, work and art-making. I share some images from SLUG here (photographs by Jordan Taylor), along with a poetic and reflective text that I wrote and was read aloud at an event that also included an in-conversation with the artist and writer Abi Palmer, celebrating the results of the bursary