Rachael House’s Feminist Disco
Rachael House’s Feminist Disco- Putting the ‘disco’ into ‘discourse’
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Anne Robinson will be performing Spin Around Sister Dr. Deborah M. Withers will read from, and discuss the ideas in, her forthcoming book Unpopular music: feminist generations, time, memory and digital culture’. Using Rachael House’s ‘Island’s’ series as a starting point, she suggests feminist musical memories are often stranded from each other, and will explore if digital archives can make a difference to this cultural estrangement.
+ guest DJs playing what they consider to be feminist music.
Rachael House is an artist who makes stuff and she makes stuff happen. Recent projects include Pittsburgh Pet-Tastic at Pittsburgh Center for The Arts, Apathy’s a Drag at CGP London and A Space of Potential at Stratford Circus, London. Rachael has also been drawing comic strips and producing fanzines for more than two decades, this work has been featured in comics, queerzines and books internationally. For a period in the early 1980s she co-ran a women’s nightclub, Blissters, at The Fridge in Brixton, where she enjoyed the company of women but not the dance music played. She is also co-director of artist-run Space Station Sixty-Five.
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