Activism History

Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.

How Maria Lamas surreptitiously used a fashion weekly to resist the dictatorship, question gender norms and encourage emancipation.

How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.

Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.

In the late 70s in Paris, an underground salon disguised itself as a tearoom to smuggle subversive ideas.