Stories | Dreadnought South West
Click on an image below to listen to a story of activism, find the transcripts (currently under completion), and more information about the recordings. You can use the common themes to find stories with similarities.
   
The original Rebellious Sounds Archive project collected 48 stories between 2017 and 2019 with interviews undertaken by Carmen Talbot for Dreadnought South West, with further stories undertaken by Neomi Alam in 2020 and Jayde Stevenson.  Here are extracts taken from longer interviews.
 
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Sharifa Al Hashem
Within the LGBTQ+ community or within some certain aspect of the community, seeing someone who identifies as being Muslim or as brown is very… is very… you know, is like a minority within a minority, so at times particularly at…
Sandhya Dave
And the message for woman here you know, just unite and work together. Woman are so powerful when we are… that’s why you find, you know um… a lot of um misogynist men uh put a lot of uh energy…
Sahar Alnaas
Transcript forthcoming Recorded: 5th February 2021
Rupa Chilvers
So I think the challenge that I had and I… I… you know 20 years later I can say I did it wrong but I did start my career thinking that my… the… my skin colour didn’t matter because I…
Neomi Alam
Um I think working with Exeter Mosque, umm… I realised that part of the problem was that communication does have to be really crystal clear, umm, we… and we have to be really careful about the words that we choose…
Neli Montes de Oca
Transcript forthcoming Recorded: by Jayde Stevenson
Michelle Leicester
I think that my own childhood experience and being in a mixed-race family and living in a very kind of white area, we… we really… we did experience a lot of abuse and discrimination as a family growing up. And…
Anjali Ramanan
So for me this probably looks more like challenging things in conversations, you know, asking people you know ‘what did you mean by that?’ – you know, challenging conversations around race, um people asking me where am I really from,…
Anon
In 1971 I went to the American University of Beirut, uh, to study, uh, medicine… I was completely taken with the, uh, activities as a student, I was a very active, very energetic… um activist in Lebanon. You cannot not…
Sophie Sleeman
Sam Sleeman
I was really inspired by Greta Thunberg the Swedish activist and I was wondering why… you know why isn’t this happening in the UK? And then… kind of that converged with me, I was on Facebook… and social media has…
Jenny Lloyd
Jenny Lloyd
‘We were very embedded in Exeter Labour Party and there were obviously these big national rallies, so we went up and then Kate… Becca was in a pushchair. When I was in the Labour party, I organised… I was a…
Fridays 4 Future Exeter Logo
Natasha Pavey
Transcript forthcoming Recorded 05.06.19 by Carmen Talbot.
Ann Trevenen Jenkin
Ann Trevenen Jenkin
Mmm – yes, I’m founding member of – em – Mebyon Kernow, but I’m also – I was the first woman Grand Bard of Cornwall [tut] so that – that was quite a – er – flag for freedom [laughs]…
Moira Macdonald 1980's and 1990's feminist badges - Exeter
Moira Macdonald
Transcript forthcoming.   Recorded on 20.05.2019 by Carmen Talbot.
Rose Gander
Rose Gander
Transcript forthcoming.   Recorded 07.01.2019
Penny Avant
Penny Avant
Transcript forthcoming. Record on 07.01.2019 by Carmen Talbot.
Zion Lights
Zion Lights
Transcript forthcoming.   Recorded 08.05.2019 by Carmen Talbot.
Diana Derioz
Diana Derioz
Transcript forthcoming
Rosemary Schonfeld SouthWest for Europe Rally Bristol 14.10.17
Rosemary Schonfeld
Transcript forthcoming Recorded by Carmen Talbot on 24.10.2018
Rosemarie Cawson Greenham Common headband
Rosemarie Cawson
So I have now ended up in a care home and I’m very old, but I remember, and we have just worked out how old I was when I attended Greenham (Greenham Common), well visited Greenham and I was a…
Fiona Green image of Ursula from newspaper climbing silo
Fiona Green
Transcript forthcoming
Angie Whitehead
Angie Whitehead
Transcript forthcoming Recorded 12.10.2018 by Carmen Talbot
ANon 3 sticker Dale Farm protest
Anon 3
There was a lot of opposition locally to the traveller sites so like support for the eviction, so there was quite a lot of like hostile – it was a very hostile environment what we were doing was sort of…
Alison Williams poster
Alison Williams
Transcript forthcoming.
Lizi Jamal
Lizi Jamal
I was just thinking first of all uh about how my parents considered me rebellious. My Mother oh one of the memories she often says about me and she says to people about her rebellious daughter and her feminist daughter…
Clare Krojzl
Clare Krojzl
Transcript forthcoming
Cllr. Tia Roos
Cllr. Tia Roos
Being a Labour councillor for me was, um,– there were two defining moments for me in deciding to take politics up, um, which I think is a really hard area for women to get into. It’s where women need to…
Melissa Hardie
Melissa Hardie
Transcript forthcoming
Jenni Kerswell-Frost
Jenni Kerswell-Frost
Transcript forthcoming
Candle Image
Ruth Stedman
I said to Dora as we were doing meals on wheels that there was an Amnesty group, I would join it in Penzance. And she said: “why don’t you start one?” I said “well, I’m dyslexic and I can’t write…
Diana Wayne
Diana Wayne
Transcript forthcoming
A Breathing Space logo
Pip Wright
Transcript forthcoming.
Alison Meaton
Alison Meaton
Transcript forthcoming
Dr. Sarah Wollaston
Dr. Sarah Wollaston
Transcript forthcoming.
Avril Silk Just Women Magazine
Avril Silk
Transcript forthcoming.
Cllr. Desna Allen
Cllr. Desna Allen
Transcript forthcoming.
Sarah Scaife
Sarah Scaife
I was aware of feminism from being- dunno thirteen fourteen and I I identified myself as a feminist from then and when I was seventeen I went to Greenham Common on the um embrace the base d- day when there…
Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley
Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley
Transcript forthcoming
Sophie Hodge
Sophie Hodge
ANAIRDA
ANAIRDA
Transcript forthcoming
Carol Steele
Carol Steele
In this Rebellious Sounds Archive Listening Booth extract, Carol Steele talks about her formative years and activism for transgender rights in the 1970s. Carol runs Transfigurations, a support group for trans people in Torbay. transfigurations.org.uk/ Transcript forthcoming
Janet Haley WASPI
Janet Haley
Transcript forthcoming
Dr. Linda Thomas
Dr. Linda Thomas
So um with the ocean waste dresses, it kind of [laughs] a bit evolved by accident. So I was, um, uh, already um making upcycled clothing. Um, and then I just happened to see this photo to — showing uh…
CND logo on badge
Elizabeth Marchant
I just began to think about, you know, how many children in the world – um, do – suffer and are treated less than they should be. And – from that, I uh you know, the amount of money that…
Alix Harris
Alix Harris
When I started working with the Barbican Theatre, um, we — I was involved in quite a lot of projects which were around social, social justice. I’m very responsive so I feel like I create work, create theatre pieces, that’s…
Humans for Rights Network logo
Maddie Harris
Transcript forthcoming
Jessie Seal on Iuventa (25 di 81)
Jessie Seal
So I guess I do find the, like, term ‘activist’ quite difficult, because I think it conjures up an image of doing really difficult physical stuff all of the time that’s quite extreme. And sometimes I don’t feel like that.…
Anne-Marie Culhane
Anne-Marie Culhane
Um, so I feel that activism permeates a lot of the work that I do. Um. Because what I’m exploring in my practice, um – which I frame in different ways as artist, as community activist, as community worker and…
Rebellious Sounds Archive Logo
Anon 2
I don’t think activism came into my life until probably [pause, sighs] 2010 or beyond, so over the last eight years. Um, I’d, fled a very abusive – relationship. I say very, it wasn’t physical. Um – apart from the…
Nicci Wonnacott
Nicci Wonnacott
I was at art college and I thought I would come out painting Devon landscapes [laughs], was my pre-conceived idea of being an art student, and actually I came out as a performance artist interested in art action so art…
WASPI logo
Carol – WASPI
Hi I’m Carol and I’m the Devon – one of the Devon – coordinators for, um, Devon WASPI supporters’ group. We support the WASPI campaign. WASPI stands for Women Against State Pension Inequality. It was formed, I think about three…
Clair Beckett
Clair Beckett
So my name is Clair Beckett, I’m 30 years old and I am a dance artist based in Plymouth and in May 2017 I was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome. I’ve always been involved in disability arts and have been developing…
Rebellious Sounds Archive Logo
Anon 1
The extract from this story has been re-read by an actor to preserve the donor’s anonymity.  There’s a lot of need for activism, is my feeling. There’s a lot of oppressive forces. My dad was a coalminer, and it had a…
High Street Bath
Dr. Amy Frost
Transcript forthcoming
Eileen O Hara
Eileen O’Hara
Please note this story contains strong language. So, I think it’s fair to say that my story of activism in the mental health arena is about challenging authority and, um, and winning. Um, so I spent a month in the…
Catherine Cartwright
Catherine Cartwright
In 2013, 2014 I was an artist in residence at, um, Exeter’s Women’s Refuge over five months. I wasn’t really (clears throat) sure what I was doing but what I wanted – my aim was to find out more about…
Linda Regan MBE
Linda Regan MBE
I think I would say that I’ve been involved in some form of activism since I was 16/17 years of age which is a long time ago now as I’m just about to hit 65 and I would say that…