In their cross-media project, Kotsopoulou & Walsh demonstrate how today’s photographic & performance practices can challenge patriarchy by referring to the history of documenting R...
Creative Response
Personal engagement with visual culture from a feminist perspective through poetry, design, art, collage, creative written word pieces. Always boundary pushing or avant-garde and at the forefront of feminist engagement.
In the midst of COVID-19 crisis, inspired by The Movement 4 Black Lives, Mahan shares criticism of American cinema and proposes radical changes to the current film industry.
...Sharma offers a heartfelt artistic tribute to ‘invisible’ migrant workers and their hardships during the lockdown in India.
...Dashdorj-Escobar contemplates what isolation and connection might mean during the lockdown in our peculiarly digital age.
...Harper reflects on intense loss, grief and craft, as she shares a deeply personal design, which she completed in the midst of the pandemic.
...Solari presents a series of compassionate vignettes—seemingly mundane observations from the time when she was saying the final goodbye to her mother.
...From her personal perspective in these two delicate and minimal poems, Sinha captures the intangible, futile ambience of 2020.
...Hoping for a systemic change to how autism is socially approached, Dear writes a sincere poem observing her brother’s anxiety around the daily news and food in the time of pandemic.
...Kiernan & Lee-Merrion present notes on two poems to demonstrate their contextual and gender reflection that inspired their poetry book in 2014.
...In 2018 researchers from Teaching to Trangress* replaced the Study Regulations at the E.R.G in Brussels with a radical re-write to expose the covert operations of patriarchy.
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WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey