Roundhouse | Bridget Minamore - 100 Years of Conversation @Roundhouse | Uploaded November 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The piece I wrote for Cause and Effect looks at the Suffragettes, women of colour, working-class women, voting, and the links and tensions between them all. It’s called ‘100 Years of Conversation’ because I really wanted to emphasise the timeframe that 14-18 NOW focuses on; 100 years is such a long time to have the same discussions, but it also isn’t very long at all.
So many of the tensions we’ve had in the feminist movement are repeats of the tensions women have had in the past, but unfortunately, we’re yet to find real solutions. Working class women (and the inequality they face specifically because they are both women and working class) have historically been rejected by the middle-class women who tend to position themselves at the front of the feminist movement. It was amazing to me to see the parallels between working-class women who left Suffrage organisations in the early 1900s because they felt like they were being ignored and the women of today who say similar.
I mostly wanted to write the piece because of how frustrated I’ve felt (as both a woman and a very loud, proud feminist), with the feminists of both the past and the present, as well as myself. Saying that I’m quietly hoping that I won’t feel as frustrated with the feminists of the future.
The piece I wrote for Cause and Effect looks at the Suffragettes, women of colour, working-class women, voting, and the links and tensions between them all. It’s called ‘100 Years of Conversation’ because I really wanted to emphasise the timeframe that 14-18 NOW focuses on; 100 years is such a long time to have the same discussions, but it also isn’t very long at all.
So many of the tensions we’ve had in the feminist movement are repeats of the tensions women have had in the past, but unfortunately, we’re yet to find real solutions. Working class women (and the inequality they face specifically because they are both women and working class) have historically been rejected by the middle-class women who tend to position themselves at the front of the feminist movement. It was amazing to me to see the parallels between working-class women who left Suffrage organisations in the early 1900s because they felt like they were being ignored and the women of today who say similar.
I mostly wanted to write the piece because of how frustrated I’ve felt (as both a woman and a very loud, proud feminist), with the feminists of both the past and the present, as well as myself. Saying that I’m quietly hoping that I won’t feel as frustrated with the feminists of the future.
