FLASHBACK

Lost again. Cycling around backstreets. ‘Please turn left, your destination is on the right’. Sweating and stressed. Buzz Buzz Buzz. 10 minutes before the library shuts. The big, black, bloated door was warmly opened. A woman excited by my presence, a tour. A rummage through the archived magazines. Some, untouched for years.

The Feminist Library is a collective. Volunteers. Rummage and rummaged. Keen to explore the secrets of the past feminists.

The Feminist Library

Heresies: Women Working Together

A Feminist Publication on art and politics - A portrait of an office. Images taken from the feminist Library archive.

The articles in feminist magazines also use short snappy sentences. The target audience was working-class women, so they adapted the language and writing style to reflect their audience. A method contemporary artist and writer Kelly Lloyd explores. Within her writing practice, she intentionally uses block quotes and keeps the umms and ahhhs in to reflect more of the people she is speaking refecting their essence.

This notion of ease of access is also within my thought process. I am a severly dyslexic individual who can’t spell the word dyslexia. I have approached sound as it also reflects how I process and learn. Often I will read a book and then re-listen to the text on audible. I partically enjoy it when the author has created the audio, as you hear how they intend the book to be read.

Re-Working/ Re-Imagining the Feminist Archive

Roger Robinson - ‘I’ve given you a name and made a life for you’.

Creating new stories and intersecting with politics and history. Exploring the personal and public history. Robinson explores ideas that you can animate archives and animate different perspectives.