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Penny Avant

Penny Avant

Record on 07.01.2019 by Carmen Talbot. Transcript by Jayde Stevenson Um my daughter – I’ve got three daughters and two of them have been really active with refugees, um actually going to north France and building things and shelters and

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Diana Derioz

Diana Derioz

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson My mother was an activist you see and she just passed it down. They were talking about breast feeding on the radio and I was thinking, yeah my mum gave me that and I gave it

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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

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ANAIRDA

ANAIRDA

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I am Latin American, I come from a political family that are also quite artistic as well, but umm… so when I was 13… between 13 and 14, we started with our newspaper in the secondary

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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

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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

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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

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