Contemporary Mamactivist Artists: A Forum on Maternal Activist Art for the Studies in the Maternal Special Issue
on The Everyday Maternal Practice:
Activist Structures in Creative Work,
Summer 2016

Natalie Loveless; Rachel Epp Buller; Deirdre Donoghue; Davina Drummond; Yara El-Sherbini; Farheen Haq; Jodie Hawkes; Sarah Irvin; Courtney Kessel; Helen Knowles; Irene Lusztig; Paula McCloskey; Iris Anna Regn; Shira Richter; Lena Simic

doi:10.16995/sim.224

Contemporary Mamactivist Artists: A Forum on Maternal Activist Art for the Studies in the Maternal Special Issue on The Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative Work, Summer 2016

Natalie Loveless, Rachel Epp Buller, Deirdre Donoghue, Davina Drummond, Yara El-Sherbini, Farheen Haq, Jodie Hawkes, Sarah Irvin, Courtney Kessel, Helen Knowles, Irene Lusztig, Paula McCloskey, Iris Anna Regn, Shira Richter, Lena Simic

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This special forum for Studies in the Maternal asks fourteen activistmother-artists, or “mamactivists”, to respond to the following questions: (1) When and why did you start making activist/political work on the maternal? (2) What reception/reaction did you receive for the work? (3) What is the latest activist/political work you have made on the maternal? (4) What shifts do you see from this first work to this last work? and (5) Why is the maternal, in your opinion, important to activist, engaged, political art today? Responses highlight a range of geographic and cultural perspectives, as well as artistic strategies. One commonality between them is that they take the maternal not as a biological facticity, but a rich feminist site of political intervention.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	56-62
Journal	Studies in the Maternal
Volume	8
Issue number	2
Early online date	15 Dec 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.16995/sim.224
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 15 Dec 2016

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Mamactivist
Forum
Maternal
Activist
Art

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Loveless, N., Buller, R. E., Donoghue, D., Drummond, D., El-Sherbini, Y., Haq, F., Hawkes, J., Irvin, S., Kessel, C., Knowles, H., Lusztig, I., McCloskey, P., Regn, I. A., Richter, S., & Simic, L. (2016). Contemporary Mamactivist Artists: A Forum on Maternal Activist Art for the Studies in the Maternal Special Issue on The Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative Work, Summer 2016. Studies in the Maternal, 8(2), 56-62. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.16995/sim.224

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