Book presentation: Parents Must Unite + Fight (FR/EN)
Parents Must Unite + Fight: a publication of the agitprop work of the Hackney Flashers, presented by Camille Richert and Henriette Gillerot.
The Hackney Flashers, a collective of nine London women, walked the streets of Hackney between 1974 and 1980 to draw attention to the profound inequalities suffered by women in their time. Their socially engaged practice led to the publication of Parents Must Unite + Fight, a book based on research conducted by Camille Richert with Henriette Gillerot. Parents Must Unite + Fight won an award for Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2024.
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The book constitutes the first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London. It uniquely brings together and reproduces all three of their series: Women and Work (1975), Who’s Holding the Baby? (1978), and Domestic Labour and Visual Representation (1980). Their works denounce wage inequalities between women and men, the double burden of work for mothers, and the half-infantile, half-glamorous images of women disseminated by the media of the time. Photographer, journalist, editor, graphic designer, illustrator: the profiles of this non-mixed socialist feminist group gave its practice of public display a distinctive character, featuring panels composed of images, text, slogans, and illustrations. The Hackney Flashers produced a form of propaganda, to use their own words, addressing a range of social discriminations—essentially, an intersectional practice before the term was widely used.
In French & English
Free entrance, without registration
Kids welcome!