Lottie Whalen
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Writer, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern (2023). Co-founder of arts & craft platform Decorating Dissidence. linktr.ee/lottiewhalen
‘THIS,MY CHILD, IS HOW THE WORLD LOOKS, THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN BORN INTO, THERE ARE THOSE BORN TO SHEAR & THOSE BORN TO BE SHORN. THAT, MY CHILD, IS HOW IT LOOKS IN THIS WORLD OF OURS & IF YOU, MY CHILD, DO NOT LIKE IT, THEN YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO CHANGE IT’ - Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, c.1934
I revisited Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern for a conversation w/ @janescimeca.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen to us chat about Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the Baroness Elsa & other women of New York’s Smock Colony - newbooksnetwork.com/radicals-and...
Lottie Whalen, "Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern" (Reaktion, 2023) - New Books Network
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The Quick and the Dead by @lwhalen.bsky.social In her profoundly affecting essay, Lottie writes about her great-grandmother's youth during the blitz, the historical forces shaping reproductive rights and her own experience of giving birth.
GLASGOW! This FRIDAY 13th 👻 join us at Mount Florida Books for our second launch! Expect fabulous readings from fabulous @lwhalen.bsky.social and Suki Hollywood Delicious wine from Smith and Gertrude Please do join us — we are so happy to be back we have to party twice 🥳
Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇
Extra Teeth@extrateethmag.bsky.social · last yr.ANNOUNCING: ISSUE NINE! FICTION Amy Twigg Suki Hollywood Julie Galente Katie Webster @spacedolphin93.bsky.social Vanessa Santos Beina Xu @kybettie.bsky.social Nazaret Ranea @jacquestsiantar.bsky.social NONFICTION @lwhalen.bsky.social Paul McQuade Art by: KMG
And she’s here!!! Issue Nine is currently winging her way out into the world 🐟 🦷 We are so excited about this issue; not only is it a massive banger but it is so good to be BACK!
In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance artreview.com/diedrick-bra...
Diedrick Brackens: Social Fabric
In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance
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‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃 Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...
Myth and making: An interview with Jonathan Baldock
Pushing craft mediums into the monumental and the monstrous...
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MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines
And last but extremely not least: LAUNCHES! We are very excited to be hosting TWO launches, one in Edinburgh with the fab @portybooks.bsky.social and one in Glasgow, with the equally fab Mount Florida Books! Please join us in launching Issue 9, and let us celebrate the ET comeback in style 🎉
Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇
Extra Teeth@extrateethmag.bsky.social · last yr.ANNOUNCING: ISSUE NINE! FICTION Amy Twigg Suki Hollywood Julie Galente Katie Webster @spacedolphin93.bsky.social Vanessa Santos Beina Xu @kybettie.bsky.social Nazaret Ranea @jacquestsiantar.bsky.social NONFICTION @lwhalen.bsky.social Paul McQuade Art by: KMG
🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found. Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️
Guess it's a good time to let people know that in 1969 Air France commissioned artist Sheila Hicks to create series of unique panels in Chinese silk for business-class sections of their 747 aircraft. Hicks hand-embroidered 19 in all; only remaining one is now at MoMA www.moma.org/collection/w...
During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
Willy Ley Was a Prophet of Space Travel. His Ashes Were Found in a Basement.
During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
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Are you working on a piece of writing, unsure of whether it’s ready to send out? Or are you ready but you don’t know where your work might fit? Have you always wondered how the submission process works?
Enchantment by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven poets.org/poem/enchant... #poetry #dadaism
Enchantment
Here / crawls / moon—
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My Fane talk with the brilliant author @sineadgleeson.bsky.social is still available to stream for free until tomorrow eve. Watch it here for more on art, feminism, communes & community in Sinéad's #novel #hagstone: www.fane.co.uk/sinead-gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts - Fane
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Dr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou@hannahhg.bsky.social · 2y agoAn immense honour to talk with author Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social @bluesky.social about her writing, as well as feminism, community & creativity for Fane Productions. Book your FREE ticket to watch on 3rd April: www.fane.co.uk/sinead-gleeson #books #bookevents #art #sinéadgleeson
Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924 (Smith College Museum of Art collection)
Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137803
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
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"It felt important to honour the fact that motherhood doesn’t finish when you’ve weaned the baby" Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood comes to @dcadundee.bsky.social this summer – read @lwhalen.bsky.social's interview with curator Hettie Judah
Motherhood in the Art World – The Skinny
This month, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition, arrives at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). We talk to curator Hettie Judah on the importance of making space…
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Beatrice Wood (March 3 1893-March 12 1998). A co-conspirator in Duchamp’s Fountain scandal, she became a ceramicist in mid-life after training with Gertrud & Otto Natzler. Alongside luster glazed vessels, she crafted kitsch, playful figurines that channeled the spirit of Dada.
🩷This is tonight🩷 Book for free & watch online this evening & in the next 2 weeks. www.fane.co.uk/sophie-haydock
Sophie Haydock Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts - Fane
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Dr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou@hannahhg.bsky.social · 2y agoA real pleasure & privilege to talk with @sophiehaydock.bsky.social for Fane Productions this 12th March. Book your FREE ticket to hear us talk all things women, art history & her new novel, Madame Matisse (pub. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social): www.fane.co.uk/sophie-haydock
It’s here! Back in print after years, Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women offers a lucid and searing look at women’s conservatism and conservatism’s view of women. If you’re interested in gender in the Trump era, this is the most useful book you can read: bookshop.org/p/books/righ...
Right-Wing Women
Check out Right-Wing Women - <p><b>With a new foreword by Moira Donegan, this long-awaited reissue of Dworkin’s iconic study of women in American conservatism is paired with a bold, modern package to ...
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From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...
Modernist Maker Digest 016: Leigh Bowery
How the taboo busting performance artist brought the Dada spirit into a new decade...
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