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Sam Sleeman

Sophie 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

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Natasha Pavey

Fridays 4 Future Exeter Logo

Recorded 05.06.19 by Carmen Talbot. Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I’ve kind of, always wanted to do, kind of, more… and, kind of like… cos I thought I’ve always been quite like a… I don’t know, like passionate person I guess

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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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Zion Lights

Zion Lights

Recorded 08.05.2019 by Carmen Talbot. Transcript by Jayde Stevenson It was kind of a few days before London I just thought I’ve gotta go, this is really important and it’s gonna be big and I knew, you know, there’s a

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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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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

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ANAIRDA

ANAIRDA

Transcript forthcoming

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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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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

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