Catalogue
Please find below the exhibited works from our exhibition. Many of their captions include a link to order them online. Most have a link to a way to contact the seller.
Trans Vulva Badge (2020)
Vagina Museum - @vagina_museum
£8
[buy here]
Enamel pin showcasing an illustration of a vulva superimposed over a trans flag. This is one of many trans-inclusive products sold to fundraise for the Vagina Museum. They provide an important riposte to transphobic misinformation about vulva being inherently female.
Rebel Dykes Badge (2021)
Rebel Dykes History Project - @rebeldykes
50p
[buy this design on other merch here]
Pin badge sold during the Rebel Dykes Art & Archive exhibition at Space Station Sixty-Five. The Rebel Dykes History Project has stopped selling this badge on their website, but they stock the same design printed on mugs, shirts and hats.
Feminists for Trans Rights Sticker (2022)
Pen Fight - @penfightmcr
20p
[buy here]
Sticker intended to be posted publicly on lampost for activist purposes, especially for pasting over transphobic stickers. "Handy for keeping some on hand in case you ever see another sticker that needs covering up"
RBG Wall Art (2020)
FOCLKEDS (via Amazon)
£13.50
Digital print on vinyl, featuring former US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Since one of this exhibition’s curators bought it, they’ve become a lot more critical of the Supreme Court and Ginsburg. Women in power are not exempt from criticism.
Katya Funko Pop (2020)
Funko
£30
[buy here]
Vinyl collectible figurine, featuring Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova—the drag persona of Brian Joseph McCook. This is one of Funko Pop’s Drag Queens series—“A bitchy new wave, featuring some of the most famous drag queens in the world!”
Emergency Self Esteem Kit (2018)
Archie McPhee
£5
[buy here]
A small metal tin with a mirror at the back and stickers and books inside. A gift from my male friend. The kit is designed to affirm the owner’s specialness. This kit shows the importance of self-affirmation and the open discussion of mental health issues.
Think Like a Girl Kids T-shirt (2020)
Strong Girls Club
£17
[buy here]
The home of the Strong Girls Club was created, with the aim of empowering women and girls through positive, strong and meaningful messages. The small business sells mothe and daughter t-shirts, jumpers and other garments with powerful messages.
Feminist in London T-shirt (2013)
Feminism in London
£8
Feminism in London started in 2010 with the aim of yearly conferences to further the feminist mission in London boroughs. Their last conference was in 2013.
Feminist Slogan T-shirt (2016)
H&M
£12
H&M had allegations of low worker wages and poor conditions for the women who made their feminist T-shirts in 2014, this scandal is a lesson in the perils of ‘commodity feminism’, exposing the reality of the production of ‘feminist fashion’ and its inexplicable link with exploitation.
Sleigh the Patriarchy Jumper (2019)
Spark Company - @thesparkdotcompany
£45
[buy here]
Spark Company is a female run and female led business. Creating feminist slogans across merch such as Jumpers like this one. Every purchase you make also includes a donation to Bloody Good Period, a charity that fights for menstrual equity on behalf of displaced people who are in need of period supplies.
Man Tears (2021)
Spark Company - @thesparkdotcompany
£8
“I LOVE this mug. Not only do the proceeds give back to Bloody Good Period, a charity that fights for menstrual equity on behalf of displaced people who are in need of period supplies, it's also so much fun to make tea in for any friends that come over.” - Sufiyeh Hadian
Anthropologie Mug (2019)
Anthropologie
£10
[buy here]
Coffee mug with "Year of Women" illustration by Audrey Lee on the circumference. This was commissioned by Anthropologie.
The Future is Female (2021)
Orlando Museum of Art
$3
Sticker depicting a crystal ball with the words "the future is female" - Bought at OMA's store
Girlboss Pen (2018)
Girlboss
Ticket to attend conference was $275 USD, to which the pen amongst other merch was included.
Pink pen from official merch bag for the "Girlboss Rally" conference in New York City
Masculinities Barbican Postcard (2020)
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
£1.99
This was one of our curators’ favourite images from the Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography exhibition, taken by a Nigerian male photographer; it's not often you see Black men portrayed as a soft presence in mass media. This image is a gorgeous representation of how to subvert race and gender norms, which the Barbican portrayed quite beautifully.
Self-portrait with Fried Eggs (2016)
National Portrait Gallery
65p
A self-portrait of Sarah Lucas in a colour-printed postcard. Purchased from National Portrait Gallery shop. National Portrait Gallery acquired this print in 2001 and has reproduced the work and sold mass-produced postcards.
The White and the Black Postcard (2019)
Royal Academy
75p
A nude painting in a colour-printed postcard. Purchased from Royal Academy. 'La Blanche la Noire, 1913' by Félix Vallotton portrays the complex relationship between two women of different races. Vallotton's objectification of female bodies represents male-gaze-driven eroticism.
What Would Dolly Do: Keyring (2019)
Flamingo Candles
£3.85
[buy here]
'What Would Dolly Do?' on pastel pink acrylic with red engraving and silver keyring. Follow in the footsteps of the iconic Dolly Parton
Fuck the Patriarchy Hoop Earrings (2018)
Fuck The Tories
£23
[buy here]
We're all fucked by the Patriarchy on a daily basis. Call out misogynistic behaviour, never be made to feel like you're not worthy, wear these hoops with pride. Also a great conversation starter.
Plates (2023)
Rebecca Wise - @rebeccawisestudio
£30 each
[Wise’s shop]
An assortment of plates:
(1) A small plate with a flower design and an abstract colourful background
(2) A large plate with a check patterned background and a standing body in a black outline
(3) A medium size plate with hand painted oranges and a lounging body in a black outline
(4) A small plate with an abstract painted background and a lounging body in a black outline
Among the Flowers (2023)
Rebecca Wise - @rebeccawisestudio
£150
[Wise’s shop]
Handmade vase with an abstract background in orange, green and pink. It has hand painted bodies & flowers that are painted on the surface in black underglaze. An added layer of hand painted gold lustre is on top.
Issue 2 (2021)
n/a ZINE - @n.a.zine
£20
Created by all female producers, this magazine aims to reclaim the original beauty of women, which is inherently tied to the natural world and the cycles of birth, growth, and trans- formation. By expressing the most natural and beautiful appearance, aborning with the new born Earth.
The Book (2023)
Molly Wurwand
$85
[buy here]
Designed and printed in LA (edition of 250), this the first artbook Wurwant ever created. Wurwand celebrate and ultimately queer the titular archetype through their mus- ings and paintings. The artist shows a wistful narrative that revelas an evocative feminine influence.
Métissage - Crossbreeding (2021)
Aïda Patricia Schweitzer - @aidaschwetizer.art
€500
This necklace is a textile work composed of woven hair, rope, wax fabric and colored wool threads. It transports us through various customs, traditions and cultural rites, with symbols that have cultural, feminist and aesthetic significance.
I have never been more at home than elsewhere (2020)
Aïda Patricia Schweitzer - @aidaschwetizer.art
€300
Embroidery on linien. It explores the intimate notion of uprooting of women who often suffer gender-specific discrimination and oppression. It embodies the feeling of living with absence, in a constant back-and-forth between the past that haunts us and a recomposed present.
Sansuna (2021)
Eden Chapman-Maurice - @edensketchbook
£50
The piece retells Malta's traditional misogynistic story about a giantess who built the Neolithic temples across the islands, being called ugly, dumb, old and scary. The artist reimagines her as the immensely powerful force of nature.
Sansuna Figure (2023)
Eden Chapman-Maurice - @edensketchbook
£50
The piece retells Malta's traditional misogynistic story about a giantess who built the Neolithic temples across the islands, being called ugly, dumb, old and scary. The artist reimagines her as the immensely powerful force of nature.
Sleeping Sansuna (2022)
Eden Chapman-Maurice - @edensketchbook
£50
The piece retells Malta's traditional misogynistic story about a giantess who built the Neolithic temples across the islands, being called ugly, dumb, old and scary. The artist reimagines her as the immensely powerful force of nature.
Social Fabric (Sewing not Surgery II) (2023)
Marie-Therese Dawes - @mtdawes
£1200
The piece was part of Dawes' MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art. The quote was in her dissertation and comes from a book by Myra MacDonald. A version of this work (with red embroidery on green-bordered textile) has recently sold at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition.
Social Fabric: Postcards (2023)
Marie-Therese Dawes - @mtdawes
25p (special offer)
[buy here]
The piece was part of Dawes' MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art. The quote was in her dissertation and comes from a book by Myra MacDonald. The work photographed on this postcard is currently at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition.
Pin Dolly (2017)
Sarah Cliff - @cliff_sarah
£175
Pin Dolly is made from pit-fired clay, red velvet and the artist's grandmother’s hat pin. Its form is ambiguous: part male torso, phallic, a bit grubby and yet, sparkly. The padded pin cushion of red velvet from a discarded dress, is penetrated by the hat pin, a common purchase at a time when hats were required dress for respectable women, secured to the hair beneath. The object intersects the historical role of women, the decorative object, and a humorous declaration of liberation from the domestic processes of female oppression.
A Hidden Thing (2023)
Yu Wang - @kiki_yihanwang
£1,000
This piece was motivated in the effort to combat the issue of women experiencing sexual violence. With an interest in cyber feminism, this device was designed as a reinterpretation to the female reproductive organ, or as the artist puts it, a fusion of 'the female pelvis/uterus with the sexual organs of the black widow spider.' Thus, reimagining the physicality of the female reproductive organs to autonomously decide whether or not to engage in sexual activity.
Bring Back Pubes (2013)
Sadie Hennessy - @memphishennessy
£55
Bring Back Pubes was created by Hennesy as a response to the (porn-fuelled) obsession with adult women removing their pubic hair.
Scratch the Patriarchy (2018)
Sadie Hennessy - @memphishennessy
£5
Scratch the Patriarchy is a subversion of an internationally popular and ubiquitous poster (produced by Athena) from the 70s.
Saggy Tits Artist T-Shirt (2019)
Carola Kastman - @carola_kastman
Gifted from the partner of one of our curators in 2019.
Saggy Boobs T-Shirt with 'Patriarkatet' (Danish) translated to English as patriarchy by Carola Kastman. Handcrafted in Sweden by artist Carola Kastman, this illustration subverts the male gaze into something more iconic. Wear with pride.
The Hirsuite Handbag (2021)
Mary Rouncefield - @maryrouncefield
£65
[Mary’s other works available on Saatchi Art]
This is a bag made from textiles, chains and nylon hair which laments the fact that women now have to have hair-free bodies in order to conform to today's norms of beauty and even social acceptability. This reqiurement for public appearances on the beach or at the swimming pool requires plucking, waxing, shaving or laser treatment in intimate areas. I feel this norm has been driven initially by men with pornographic fantasies but now fostered by fashion.
Pad (2014)
Ema Pina - @ema.pina
£36
‘Pad’ shows a used menstrual pad, a personal subject seldom discussed in a social context or addressed in a public setting. In a world driven by productivity and speed, ‘Pad’ highlights bodily experience and the body’s cycles, addressing the incorporation of sentience and cognition and lived experience. Wood board and paper, the painting and print supports respectively, act, much like the sanitary pad, as an absorbent container to a fluid with intimate, personal and political resonance: paint, ink, blood.
weirdspace 220419 (2019)
Shi Blank
£10
[buy here]
This artwork explores the representation of women composers in classical and contemporary music and the industry. Blank explores the lives of 7 composers and a writer, and how they are largely ignored and/or forgotten because they do not fit the mold of the 'male genius' for their works to be immortalised.
The zine is accompanied by sound recordings of the composers and writer of which Blank has also made using the open source software, Audacity. The zine is created in Inkscape and Gimp, both open source publishing software and the fonts used for the zine are created by womxn typographers under open font license.
#64 2023
Ocean Gavin-Mitchell - @oceandoodles_
£40
#64 is a marionette puppet made from recycled materials. She is inspired by Miss Bubbles, the famously sexualised marionette puppet by by Bil and Cora Baird. I created this puppet to be the ideal showgirl woman, big hair, makeup, slim waist but huge breasts and thighs, very much like today's beauty standard.
COUTURE, DARLING (2023)
Andie Larsen - @ahayes_arts
Available for sale - contact Larsen to enquire further.
Footstool, upholstered with a fake Juicy Couture tracksuit made of crushed velvet and rhinestones. Constructed for Larsen’s MFA degree at Kingston, where they explored the paradox of objectifying/liberating sexuality in corporate branding.
Boob Bag (2022)
Morag Seaton - @moragseaton
£210
Adjustable accessory, featuring a large pocket containing a discreet zip pocket. Produced during her Fashion MA at RCA, using wool, cotton and coconut trim. “The Boob Bag is about celebrating asymmetrical things for asymmetrical people.”
Big Pocket (2023)
Morag Seaton - @moragseaton
Available for sale - contact Seaton to enquire further.
Large pocket made of waxed cotton. This creation was informed by Seaton’s research into the socio-political history of pockets. She understands them as a symbol of autonomy, particularly in relation to women’s privacy, employment and consumerism.
Bite/Bitten (2023)
Maddy Plimmer - @maddyplimmer
£40
Hand-sewn cotton underwear, made to fundraise for a feminist exhibition called The Improbable Truth, which responded to crime museums. Plimmer explores the history of chastity belts as symbolising the blurring of protection and violence.
Beyond Binary (2023)
Yushi Song - 10015453@network.rca.ac.uk
£80 (or £1 per card)
Board game for two players, featuring over sixty scenario cards and four identity cards (one male, one female, two gender neutral). Produced during her Design Products MA at RCA, it shares her research into gender inequality.
Lavendar Menace (2022)
River Manning - @rivermanning_
£23
Linocut print from Manning's Queer Power series, referencing the lesbian feminist group, Lavender Menace. This term was reclaimed by activists in the 1970s, following its derrogatory usage by the homophobic feminist Betty Friedan.
Fly Agaric (2022)
River Manning - @rivermanning_
£23
[buy here]
Linocut print from Manning's Queer Power series—"Taking inspiration from archival queer protest images, Queer Power is a celebration of all things glorious about being queer." Available on his Etsy store in colour schemes such as Bisexual and Sunburst.
Dykes on Bikes (2023)
River Manning - @rivermanning_
£23
[buy here]
Linocut print from Manning's Queer Power series—"Taking inspiration from archival queer protest images, Queer Power is a celebration of all things glorious about being queer." Available on his Etsy store in colour schemes such as Bisexual and Sunburst.
TRANNY FAG DYKE: Support Black Trans Therapists (2023)
River Manning - @rivermanning_
£15
[buy here]
Linocut print sold on Manning’s Etsy shop to raise money for the top surgery and therapist training of his close friend. “Jaz has done so much for the community, volunteering at various sexual health organisations…I am really proud of him.”
HEAVY ARE THE HIPS THAT WEAR THE STRAP (2023)
River Manning - @rivermanning_
£9 for A5, £14 for A4
[buy here]
Digital illustration of a queer body with tattoos, wearing a leather strap-on and holding a dildo. Both the colour of the harness and the dildo are customisable. You can see a glimpse of a ‘Lavendar Menace’ tattoo on the figure’s thigh.
Wet & Juicy (2023)
River Manning - @rivermanning_
£5 each
[buy here]
Greeting card, available on Manning's Etsy store in pink, pomegranate, blue, yellow and black. An envelope is included with this sexy card.
Transfloration Stickers (2022)
River Manning - @rivermanning_
£3 each
[buy here]
Vinyl stickers, reproducing Manning's linocut prints, including 'Christmas Cactus' and 'String of Hearts' from his Transflorations series. These trans bodies hybridise with flora and thereby defy ideas of nature fitting into neat categories.
Trans Prisoner Power (2019)
Kinoko
$10
[buy here]
Sticker, reproducing a drawing made in prison by a trans artist. Kinoko is encarcerated in Nevada and is part of the A.B.O. Comix collective, whose online shop sells these stickers.
Freedom (2017)
E.L. Tedana - @a.b.o.comix
$30
Print of a drawn self-portrait by a trans artist who is incarcerated in Texas and is part of the A.B.O. Comix collective, whose online shop sells these prints. E.L. aspires to be a counsellor, after being released from prison.
Tove (2022)
Rowan Frewin - @rowanfrewin
£5
[buy here]
Risograph print on recycled paper, featuring Tove Jansson, Frewin’s favourite queer illustrator. Jansson’s Moomins have had a lasting legacy of empowering women, such as recently being used in Oxfam’s feminist campaign.
You Are Safe Here (2022)
Rachael House - @rachaellhouse
£2
[buy here]
Zine published by Colossive Cartography in a format based on the Turkish map fold. “In a world that is increasingly hostile to LGBTQIA+ people and with recent hard-won rights being rescinded, this zine imagines a safe space within its folds”
Ex Libris (2021)
Rachael House - @rachaellhouse
Free bookplate with £30 purchase of Resistance Sustenance Protection, House’s book of drawings reflecting on the Covid pandemic. The book includes feminist histories and the creation of genderqueer deities to watch over us. Another print of this bookplate resides in the V&A (Accession Number: E.856-2022).
Self-Published Zines (2017-23)
Rachael House - @rachaellhouse
50p-£2 each
This selection of zines contains recent works such as Be More Bonobo (2023), which is available at The Feminist Library. ‘Regardless of Gender’ was hot off the press last month. House prefers to trade her zines rather than sell them for cash.
This Is Fake DIY (2019)
Holly Casio - @hollycasio
£1
[Casio’s shop]
Zine exploring Casio’s feelings about zines, as well as DIY culture more broadly. They particularly focus on how large corporations co-opt this culture for profit, appealing superficially to consumer groups such as young people.
The Sapphic Utopia Zine (2022)
Ayshe-Mira Yashin - @illustrationwitch
£2.40
[buy here]
Zine exploring queerness and spirituality, which comes with a free Self Love Sachet of fragrant herbs which Yashin made at their alter. The illustrations celebrate intimacy between femmes, depicting them in nature to challenge the idea that queer love is unnatural.
Enchantress Riot: An Illustrated Zine of Spells for Queer Women (2022)
Ayshe-Mira Yashin - @illustrationwitch
£19.20
[buy here]
Risograph printed zine, which facilitates queer femmes to manifest fulfilment, in the face of an adversary world. Yashin approaches witchcraft not only as a means to personal empowerment, but also as a form of queer feminist activism.
Shahmaran Zine (2023)
Ayshe-Mira Yashin - @illustrationwitch
Available for sale—contact Yashin to enquire further
[Yashin’s shop]
Zine introducing Shahmaran, the queer Kurdish/Turkish/Persian/Armenian goddess. Her image has become prevalent in feminist and LGBTQIA+ protest art. Yashin’s work is constructed of pencil illustrations collaged with linocut prints.
The Earth Mother Magic Tarot Deck & Zine (2023)
Ayshe-Mira Yashin - @illustrationwitch
£38 deck, £10 zine
[buy deck here and zine here]
Risograph printed tarot deck and explanatory zine, intended as an intersectional feminist facilitator for the spiritual experiences of queer femmes. Yashin’s illustrations aim to empower women with features such as body hair and stretch marks.
Stitchable Change-Maker: Malala Yousafzai (2015)
Sarah Corbett - @craftivists
£7
[buy here]
Hand-made craft kit using a traditional letterpress system on recycled card at The Letterpress Collective. The front showcases a quote from Yousafzai, while the back features a brief introduction to her life and feminist activism.
Free Pussy Riot (2012)
Jamie Reid - @jamie_reid_archive
Initially this image was shared for free, but copies have been subsequently available for sale at Galerie Babylone.
Poster featuring Vladimir Putin, created in response to the incarceration of three members of the Russian punk rock protest and performance group called Pussy Riot. Another print of this poster resides in the V&A (Accession Number: S.134-2021).
Thawra (2019)
Tracy Chahwan - @tracychahwan
Originally intended for free, as the artist did not want to gain profit from this. After a high demand by audiences, post-uprising, printing costs were applied for $2.50 per screenprint.
Design by Chahwan, screen-printed by Farah Fayyad and Siwar Kraytem during the Lebanese uprisings of 2019. Chahwan’s design pays tribute to the women on the front lines of the protests.
A t-shirt printed with this design resides in the V&A (Accession Number: ME.10-2022).
Mansplain This (2018)
Aqui Thami - @dallaekhorsani
£50
Available for sale—contact Thami to enquire further
Digitally-printed version of a risograph print depicting a woman's legs in pink, lifting her skirt. Thami is a Darjeeling-based contemporary indigenous artist whose work focuses on empowering marginalised communities. Another print of this poster resides in the V&A (Accession Number: E.671-2019).
The New Me: Print (2021)
Rosie Gibbens - @rosiegibbens
£25
[buy here]
Print from Gibbens’s The New Me project, based around her fictional dystopian company The Ilium Corporation that capitalises of desires to maintain ideal bodies. Gibbens models Ilium’s products in this retro-futurist advertisement.
Rosie Gibbens - @rosiegibbens
£15
[buy here]
Patches from Gibbens’s The New Me project, based around her fictional dystopian company The Ilium Corporation that sells absurd life-enhancing products. Her work explores cuteness as a marketing strategy whereby the consumer becomes ‘mother’ to the items they buy.
Cats Not Terfs (2022)
Frank Duffy - @mxfrankduffy
£1.10 badge, 50p sticker
[buy badge here and sticker here]
Badge and sticker, reproducing Duffy’s oil painting. This print is also available on other merchandise, such as mugs and t-shirts. “Show your support for cats and trans rights with these professionally-made badge and sticker!”
Frank Destroys Cisheteronormativity (2022)
Frank Duffy - @mxfrankduffy
£18
[buy here]
Digital print on matte paper, featuring Duffy's linocut collaged with newspaper clippings and oil paint. Topics include pension inequality, sexual abuse, abortion and policing. Frank is represented by a lion-headed human with top surgery scars.
This reading area features around 30 publications
exploring feminist themes. They have all been purchased over the past decade by the curators of this exhibition.
We have taken this opportunity to reflect on our ownexperiences of buying feminist commodities such as books. The contexts of our purchases range broadly, from supporting our favourite trans performers to ac-quiring expert advice on ethically curating feminist exhibitions.
Most of them are conventionally formatted books,but the purposes of these publications also vary—from academic texts to exhibition catalogues, as well as a zine and a theatre programme.
Authors include bell hooks, Bimini Bon Boulash,
Chimamanda Ngozi and Travis Alabanza.