‘THIS,MY CHILD, IS HOW THE WORLD LOOKS, THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN BORN INTO, THERE ARE THOSE BORN TO SHEAR & THOSE BORN TO BE SHORN. THAT, MY CHILD, IS HOW IT LOOKS IN THIS WORLD OF OURS & IF YOU, MY CHILD, DO NOT LIKE IT, THEN YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO CHANGE IT’ - Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, c.1934

I revisited Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern for a conversation w/ @janescimeca.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Listen to us chat about Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the Baroness Elsa & other women of New York’s Smock Colony - newbooksnetwork.com/radicals-and...

The Quick and the Dead by @lwhalen.bsky.social In her profoundly affecting essay, Lottie writes about her great-grandmother's youth during the blitz, the historical forces shaping reproductive rights and her own experience of giving birth.

GLASGOW! This FRIDAY 13th 👻 join us at Mount Florida Books for our second launch! Expect fabulous readings from fabulous @lwhalen.bsky.social and Suki Hollywood Delicious wine from Smith and Gertrude Please do join us — we are so happy to be back we have to party twice 🥳

Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇

And she’s here!!! Issue Nine is currently winging her way out into the world 🐟 🦷 We are so excited about this issue; not only is it a massive banger but it is so good to be BACK!

In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance artreview.com/diedrick-bra...

Actor's Mask http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80094

‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃 Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

And last but extremely not least: LAUNCHES! We are very excited to be hosting TWO launches, one in Edinburgh with the fab @portybooks.bsky.social and one in Glasgow, with the equally fab Mount Florida Books! Please join us in launching Issue 9, and let us celebrate the ET comeback in style 🎉

Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇

🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found. Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️

Guess it's a good time to let people know that in 1969 Air France commissioned artist Sheila Hicks to create series of unique panels in Chinese silk for business-class sections of their 747 aircraft. Hicks hand-embroidered 19 in all; only remaining one is now at MoMA www.moma.org/collection/w...

During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?

Are you working on a piece of writing, unsure of whether it’s ready to send out? Or are you ready but you don’t know where your work might fit? Have you always wondered how the submission process works?

Enchantment by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven poets.org/poem/enchant... #poetry #dadaism

My Fane talk with the brilliant author @sineadgleeson.bsky.social is still available to stream for free until tomorrow eve. Watch it here for more on art, feminism, communes & community in Sinéad's #novel #hagstone: www.fane.co.uk/sinead-gleeson

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924 (Smith College Museum of Art collection)

Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137803

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

🌳🍃Larkin on a glorious spring day in Glasgow, via @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social 🌳🍃

"It felt important to honour the fact that motherhood doesn’t finish when you’ve weaned the baby" Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood comes to @dcadundee.bsky.social this summer – read @lwhalen.bsky.social's interview with curator Hettie Judah

Beatrice Wood (March 3 1893-March 12 1998). A co-conspirator in Duchamp’s Fountain scandal, she became a ceramicist in mid-life after training with Gertrud & Otto Natzler. Alongside luster glazed vessels, she crafted kitsch, playful figurines that channeled the spirit of Dada.

🩷This is tonight🩷 Book for free & watch online this evening & in the next 2 weeks. www.fane.co.uk/sophie-haydock

It’s here! Back in print after years, Andrea Dworkin’s Right Wing Women offers a lucid and searing look at women’s conservatism and conservatism’s view of women. If you’re interested in gender in the Trump era, this is the most useful book you can read: bookshop.org/p/books/righ...

From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...

Black Women Make Art is an ongoing database of global Black women visual artists, past and present, working in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, video, etc. This archive acts as a historical resource that keeps their underrepresented work in dialogue. blackwomenmakeart.blogspot.com?m=1

Dorothy Richardson says hello from the Harry Ransom Center in Austin,Texas. The first page of her first draft of Dimple Hill, the last volume of Pilgrimage published (as part of the 1938 collected edition) during her lifetime.🧵

Catch up with our Modernist Maker series – from Mina Loy to Bauhaus weavers, Ruth Asawa, Art Smith and more! decoratingdissidence.substack.com/t/modernist-...

Lithograph by Katharine N Rhoades for a 1915 issue of avant-garde NY journal 291. Showing a gun positioned between a sperm & ovum, it responds to a notice in the same issue: ‘Motherhood a Crime’, about the case of a young woman who killed herself due to ‘shame’ & fear of her illegitimate pregnancy.

When I’m struggling to write, I often go back to this David Lynch quote. ‘I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath’

Bet Low (1924-2007), ‘An Island on Your Doorstep’ at Glasgow School of Art. A look at Low’s journey from social realist sketches in post-war Glasgow to painting the sublime landscapes of Scotland’s highland & Orkney Islands.

✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨ 🔗 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...

Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!

‘A Happy New Year’, linocut by Marguerite Zorach, c. 1926-28 - donated to MoMA from the collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

🎄✨Florine Stettheimer, Christmas, c.1930-1940 ✨🎄

🌗December marks the centenary of Scottish painter Bet Low’s birth (1924-2007) 🌗 For the solstice, some beautiful examples of her moonlit landscapes, showing nightfall on Orkney and the Scottish Highlands 🌚 I profiled Low in her centenary year for Art UK: artuk.org/discover/sto...

"Tea is served" "Girl employees" (adult women) posing with a brew at Lever Brothers' Port Sunlight factory in 1925, with varying levels of enthusiasm From magazine 'Industrial Welfare' ( mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/IWS/... ) - a great source of photos of working conditions & factory facilities

Nicola L, ‘I am the Last Woman Object’ at Camden Arts Centre. Witty, subversive takes on sex & gender played out in pleather & fake fur.

The revival of traditional Ghanaian crafts like indigo dyeing could transform the country’s most marginalized regions into vibrant economic hubs.

Irene Rice Pereira, White Lines, 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135295

❤️‍🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down” youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY

Maud Sulter, ‘you are my kindred spirit’ at Glasgow’s Tramway. A beautifully curated show of Sulter’s ‘living archive’, exploring lost communities, gaps in archive, cultural erasure - & down the road from the Gorbals, where Sulter grew up & filmed her boarded up home for ‘No Oxford Spires’

Our monthly modernist digest looks at the work of the Omega Workshops, inspired by a visit to Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston at Sotheby’s - our faves inc. Wyndham Lewis’ striking orange robe & Vanessa Bell’s The Party (the painting thought to have inspired Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway!)

📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.

❄️ A painting for a snowy day in the UK - Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Door With Snow (1953-1955) ❄️

📩 Jeremy Deller and Ed Hall's banners make space for William Morris, Morris dancers, acid house, brass bands, gurning competitions, and art to coexist... #banner #textile #craft decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/review-jer...