My grandmother (my mom’s mom) was a feminist activist in the 1970s and ’80s. She was part of a Danish women’s movement called Rødstrømpebevægelsen (The Red Stocking Movement). Growing up, I didn’t think to ask her about her time as an activist. As an adult, I’ve become more curious about her time as a feminist activist and have come to see her as a feminist role model, because of the values ​​we share. Sadly, this realization and curiosity only emerged after her passing, so I never got the chance to ask her the questions I have. Besides the beliefs I’ve inherited, one of the only physical objects I have from her is a wooden drawer. The drawer has passed down through generations of women in my family, from my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my mother, then to my sister, and finally to me. Wood is a solid material that stands the test of time, which is why wooden objects are often preserved through generations.

Through replicating the lost protest material, made by the woman in Rødstrømpebevægelsen, I seek to create a new usable and durable archive, that is revived, printed and traced with large woodcuts in a collectively workshop.

“I feel like I am part of something bigger, something that neither began with me nor will end with me, but that I am helping to carry the fight forward to the next generation, who will hopefully continue it to the next, until there is no longer a need for that fight” (Revolution & Søstersind, DR P1, 2021).

Working together as woman, consciously creating our networks even where patriarchal institutions are the ones in which we have to survive, we can confront the problems of woman’s relationships, the mothers we came from, the sisters with whom we were forced to divide the world, the daughters we love and fear (MS Heresies 2, 2019. Rietlanden Women’s Office).

Thank you to the loveliest workshop team:
Emese Veszely
Helle Monne Huisman
Valdemar Juul
Pavla Nečásková
Karin De Voss
Hana Kiani
Lotte Baelen
Eva Cosyns
Isis Copal
Jonas Borinski
Vero Denecker