Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-3-2025

Abstract

The western-feminist slogan ‘the personal is political’ (Hanisch, 1970) emerged in the late 1960s, connecting women’s varied experiences of, for example, reproductive autonomy, pay inequality, childcare/household labour, and domestic violence, with social and political issues. These include social justice, civil rights, abortion access, gay and women’s liberation, the dismantling of systemic racism and structural oppression.

As an Irish, feminist, auto-ethnographic artist-designer-writer-academic, my lived experience of three decades of political violence and social repression in Northern Ireland (1967-98) and the different but no less complex cultures of the UK (1996-2022) and Egypt (1922-), is informed by deliberatively, intentionally designed activism for freedom, autonomy and equality. Of the several meanings of design (Merriam-Webster, n.d.), I am drawn to the verbs devise, contrive, plot, scheme, calculate, and the adverbs deliberately, purposefully and intentionally, as they allow for cunning narrative and crafty advocacy.

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