Collaboraction
My friend, artist Bonnie Fortune, has organized a whole month of exhibits, performances, and displays in two cities–Champaign and Chicago–around women’s health justice movements in the U.S. from 1969-2009. As part of her project, she and I installed material in a display case outside of the History Library at the University of Illinois. She called our work the “fine art of the pedagogical bulletin board.” In the case, we included feminist zines from the 1970s and the present, buttons, colorful posters, newsletters, announcements of upcoming lectures and performances, and books. The books we chose included two that have been really important to both of us: Andrea Smith’s Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (2005), and Dorothy Roberts’ Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1998). The other books are by UIUC professors, Leslie Reagan, Sarah Projansky, and Ruth Nicole Brown. If you are on campus, check it out. It’s on the second floor of the Main Library. There’s also a poster display from the Women’s Graphics Collective in Chicago that can be seen at the Women’s Resource Center, 703 S. Wright St, 2nd floor, Champaign.
Display case outside History Library, UIUC