Interview

Open dialogues and conversations with feminist practitioners working in visual culture.

Reflecting on her documentary work, Marán speaks about capturing intimacy and emancipation through localised filmmaking practice.

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Years ago, Jem Mackay met Paterson whilst working on a film. Here they reunite to discuss her career as a female filmmaker.

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Menkes discusses how she persevered against blatantly sexist hiring practices in the film industry, and how that led to Brainwashed (2022).

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An accomplished Finnish transwriter, Jiipu Uusitalo ponders on a range of their inspirations, from Nana the dog to feminist companionship.

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Marshall meets director Iryna Tsylik whose films have captured events in Ukraine since the first Russian invasion in 2014.

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Mayer meets Bishakh Som to discuss her recent success in the world of graphic novels and the new trans literature.

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Segui meets Ana Penyas to discuss creative, social and political inspirations that shaped her successful career as a graphic novelist.

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New media artist Katarzyna Kozyra talks about her art, female artists, and her experiments with the camera.

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Tasheva illuminates how her journey as an Eastern European migrant critically inspired her personal photographic account of marginalisation.

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The release of Passion inspired us to meet Borg to talk about the creative parallels between capitalism and our intimate relationships.

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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