Women Holding The Line - Hampstead Heath Ladies Pond
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Hi!
We are Michelle Liverbird and Angela Wild, two radical feminist activists based in the UK.
On the 28th of July 2024, we are staging a direct action/live art performance surrounding Kenwood Ladies Pond in Hampstead Heath reclaiming it as a woman-only space.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!
In recent years Kenwood Ladies Pond has been the site of men’s invasion.
Since 2019, supported by the Kenwood Ladies Pond Association, men have been allowed to enter this historical (herstorical!) woman-only space, if they declare themselves to be women.
BUT NO MAN IS A WOMAN!
The Ladies Pond exists for women’s enjoyment safely and away from the male gaze.
The Ladies Pond does not exist to fulfil male sexual fantasies or for men’s gender validation.
NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT!
Based on Angela Wild's radical feminist artwork “Women-only - No Men beyond This Point” a conceptual art piece exploring definitions, linguistic boundaries and women's legal rights to exclude men from our spaces, we invite women to physically HOLD THE LINE.
Together side by side, we will hold a symbolic line around the pond and meadow, making the area truly woman-only.
People who insist that men can be women often accuse us of gatekeeping the word “woman”. This is exactly what we will be doing :D
Together we set and hold our own boundaries.
WE NEED YOU!
Supporting this action is your opportunity to:
Support the creation of radical feminist art
Join a unique radical feminist live art performance
Actively support women-only spaces
When you donate to this crowdfunder, you help pay for the expenses of creating this unique live art piece. expenses such as printing material and supplies as well as security on the day.
We hope to see you on the day! Bring your mother, your sister, your daughter.
This is a woman-only action.
"Women only- No men beyond this point" is a conceptual piece of radical feminist art piece by Angela Wild. It is a portable Women-only space, in a bag consisting of concrete bases, extendable poles and a long yellow tape printed with the words "Women only- No men beyond this point"
The concept is to offer women a radical tool of defiance and a way to set up a boundary, a women's space, a small declaration of independence. A NO.
By placing a boundary around us and restricting entry to women alone, we place a symbolic boundary around us AND around the definition of woman.
When we safeguard our space, we also safeguard our meaning.
When we reclaim the name, we reclaim the space.
You can read more about it here
WHO WE ARE
Michelle Liverbird is a radical feminist and lesbian activist. She has been actively involved in organising a number of feminist and women-only events since 2017.
Angela C. Wild is a lesbian feminist activist, political artist and writer, she is a former member and co-founder of Get The L Out UK Lesbian activist group and founder of Wild Womyn Workshop, a shop for radical feminist activists.
Be in touch on womenhtl AT gmail DOT com
(GoFundMe blocks emails being shared here to prevent phishing).
Organizer and beneficiary
Angela Wild
Organizer
Wales
Michelle Kerwin
Beneficiary