Joint Event With The Otago Polytechnic

-
We had our second event on the 21st of September. During the evening speakers from the Otago Polytechnic gave 7 minute long presentations on the topic of intersectional feminism in Dunedin. 

SUFFRAGE 125 

This project is proudly supported by the Ministry for Women's Suffrage 125 Community Fund. To find out more about Suffrage 125 and other events in New Zealand follow this link: http://women.govt.nz/about/new-zealand-women/history/suffrage-125/events-celebrations


SPEAKERS 

Bridie Lonie is a lecturer at Otago Polytechnic and was a founding member of the Women’s Gallery, Wellington (1980-84) and with Marian Evans and Tilly Lloyd an editor of A Women’s Picture Book, 25 Women Artists of Aotearoa/New Zealand, A Spiral Publication (Wellington: Government Printing Office 1988). She spoke on the Women’s Gallery’s tactic of subject-based, collective, women-only exhibitions. 

Michele Beevors is an artist and lecturer at Otago Polytechnic. She focused on the intersection between feminism and animals (particularly horses) in the works of Berlinde de Bruycker, Deborah Buterfield, and in her own work, using Donna Harraway’s ‘Awash in urine’ essay on Menopause and hormone replacement therapy to unpack the works mentioned. 

Sarah Baird is a former student of the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic and an artist featured in the exhibition. Her presentation spoke to “all the things anyone has ever said to me and other stories facts. A foray into the posters of the Bertha Revolution.”

Hana Cadzow is a lecturer at the Otago Polytechnic. Her topic was about ‘finding feminism’. She states, “Despite growing up in a family where social justice issues were openly discussed and addressed, it wasn’t until relatively recently that I discovered intersectional feminism and considered myself to be a “feminist”. To get there I had to travel the world, search the internet, and look deeply at my own life here in Dunedin.” 

Kiri Mitchell discussed 'Re-configure – Open home'. Re-configure exhibited the works of six Dunedin artists who identified as feminists using the figure in a South Dunedin home in 2017. She reflected on the exhibition held in a domestic setting.











Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Association Hall: Interview with Rachael Francis

-
Image
The Story of the Otago Pioneer Women’s Memorial Association Hall – An Interview with Rachael Francis, Historian in Residence The hall today The hall as it appeared in 1925 Suffrage in this country was undoubtedly a major achievement, with New Zealand being the first nation in the world to achieve this step towards gender parity. However, progress in terms of gender equality after 1893 was halting in many respects – the suffrage movement dissipated and not much changed in terms of legislation or cultural attitudes towards women. In fact, 50 years after suffrage in New Zealand women still couldn’t sign off on renting a public hall in Dunedin but had to have their husband do this for them. Thus began the story of the Otago Pioneer Women’s Memorial Association hall. - In 1936 preparations had begun for New Zealand’s centennial in 1940, which would include various memorials to New Zealand’s early settlers and pioneers. The Otago Women’s Centennial Counci
Read more

The Story of Rape Crisis in Dunedin - A Discussion with Dr Cindy Hall, Angelo Libeau and Dr Leehe Vardi

-
In 1971, a small group of women in Dunedin began holding meetings to discuss the ideas of Women’s Liberation, and they called themselves the Dunedin Collective for Women (DCW). This was a consciousness-raising group, and some of its main concerns were equal pay, good childcare, women’s control over their bodies, and the ending of stereotyped gender roles ( Rape Crisis Dunedin: Herstory , http://www.rapecrisisdunedin.org.nz/herstory.htm).     In the 1970s, the Women’s Liberation Movement discussed women expressing and celebrating their sexuality and thus there was a focus on issues such as access to birth control and abortion. The 1980s saw the second phase of the feminist movement begin, and there was an expanded awareness of, and increased focus on, women’s vulnerability to sexual violence (Charlotte Macdonald, The Vote the Pill and the demon drink: a history of feminist writing in New Zealand, 1869 – 1993 , 208). In 1980, after a meeting on wome
Read more

Interview with Te Whare Pounamu Dunedin Women's Refuge

-
Image
An Authentically Intersectional Institution: Te Whare Pounamu Dunedin Women’s Refuge – An Interview with Wenda Parata-Muir As of 2017, New Zealand had the worst rates of family violence in the developed world, with 1 in every 3 women having experienced some form of domestic violence in their lifetime. Te Whare Pounamu Dunedin Women’s Refuge ( TWP ) exists to assist women, children, families and whanau to escape domestic violence, through providing short-term residential housing to affected women, and through offering programmes to women, children and men enabling them to understand the cycle of domestic violence and how to escape it. As Manager Wenda Parata-Muir states, the 5-week programme offered to women is “to empower them to take responsibility for their safety and that of their children. Many women find it helpful to attend a group run especially for women who have experienced family harm and intimate partner violence. In the programme they learn about what
Read more