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Creating feminist spaces: occupying hostile environments

Smith, Kate; McMahon, Grainne; Davidson, Anna

Authors

Kate Smith K.Smith56@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology

Grainne McMahon

Anna Davidson



Abstract

We are a new, small and emerging social justice network of feminist activists, academics and community workers, building a collaborative, capacity-releasing feminist network by making connections between UK and globally-based allied projects of resistance. We work to create co-equal and co-creative safe(r) spaces and share our lived experiences of occupying and resisting hostile environments where we have been made to be out of place, unwelcome and unsafe. We do not assume that these spaces are felt in common between us, but they enable us to take up our own space, to tell our own stories, to move across boundaries and borders, to be heard and visible (where desired), and to resist. Using arts-based methods of enquiry, we pose living questions in our work together which are ongoing and ever-adapting alongside our lived experiences of occupying and resisting hostile environments.

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Nov 16, 2020
Deposit Date May 19, 2025
Journal Feminist Media Studies
Print ISSN 1468-0777
Electronic ISSN 1471-5902
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1786935