A PgCert Collection
Intersectionality was first coined over 35 years ago by Kimberlé Crenshaw, drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory. It highlights how facets of our identities, such as race, gender, disability can overlap to compound social disadvantage. Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects“… Continue reading Where Power Comes and Collides
Hartbeat was the pinnacle in 1989, ”You’re not putting your heart into it.” My mum’s feedback to eight year old me about my mermaid collage, embellished with silver milk bottle tops and After Eight wrappers cut into intricate tail scales. The big dream was getting my picture onto the show’s coveted gallery, but it never… Continue reading The Hartbeat Gatekeeper
My planning for a Unit 7 briefing on the Creative Identity project coincided with some suggested PGCert reading into auto-ethnography. In Revision; An Auto Ethnography Study Toolkit UAL researcher Eve Lin provides an introduction to Auto-ethnographic narratives and writing styles, along with a toolkit of exercises. The overall aim being to help both students and… Continue reading Lived Experience, Not Moodboards
I used the Mircoteach as an opportunity to explore how object based learning could be used to activate contemporary London archives. ‘London’s Lost Objects’ would be targeted at Fashion Communication students with the final outcome being to devise an exhibition. The object I sourced was a Nike rucksack from contemporary Grime Archive No Licence, based… Continue reading Microteach – Londons Lost Objects
Work with archives is an integral part of my practice as both an artist and educator, although I’m yet to find a methodology to apply it within my role at CSM. Both the texts I read ahead of the first session bought together new perspectives on how I might be able to approach this. In… Continue reading Activating The Archive
Education is about healing and wholeness. It is about empowerment, liberation, transcendence, about renewing the vitality of life. It is about finding and claiming ourselves and our place in the world “ Parker Palmer via bell hooks Time is squeezed, parts of me are divided into fractions. Working as a Stage Lead, being a mum… Continue reading A History Of The World
Today I started my PGCert. After 2 decades of facilitating workshops and teaching I’m excited to be a student again; to have the opportunity to engage with theory, learn new approaches that will inform my role as Stage 2 Lead on the BA in Fashion Communication and Promotion Course at CSM. I also love a… Continue reading Class Pictures