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These artist-activists will present something of their work and discuss the possibilities for activist art to challenge existing perceptions and attitudes.

Rebecca Mordan’s presentation begins with song, using them to explore how activism and art can be used to challenge dominant narratives, how women in the past have done this and how she and her feminist company Scary Little Girls do so now.

Jimini Hignett presents work from The Prostitution Monologues, and Nr.1 Tourist Attraction, both investigate the topics of prostitution and trafficking for the sex industry, and speak about how her work feeds into the debate about the failure of the Dutch legal model and the idea of the Nordic model whereby sex-buyers are prosecuted rather than women selling sex.

Sonya Douglas explores the importance of voice through the four main stages of her life, showing slides of her canvases and culminating in one of her poems put to music and performed a cappella.

Angela Wild moderates the session and look at the dual role of art and activism, which comes first and how the two play into one another, and how, historically, for women to artists at all is a political act in itself.