Future is Queer

This year – the hundredth anniversary year of the Suffrage movement – women around the world are still rising up to fight for their rights. From the #MeToo movement to abortion rights marches, women are speaking out against the injustices that still blight their lives. That is why Amnesty is putting women human rights defenders at the forefront of it’s Write for Rights campaign this year. REBELLION is a creative act of solidarity between women and non-binary artists, and women human rights defenders around the world. Make a statement with the clothing you wear.

Find out more about Write for Rights here: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/write-for-rights

Join Amnesty’s Feminist Network: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/join-amnesty-feminists

Campaign photography: Claudia Rocha

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Amnesty International defends individuals who are in immediate danger of serious human rights abuse. They can range from cartoonists, poets photojournalists, graffiti artists and even slogan t-shirt wearers; most of whom have been illegally detained, tortured, or sometimes killed for their activism. Everpress will donate 40% of the profits from this promotional venture to Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust, a registered charity, with charity registration number 1051681 and will pay 10% of the profits from t-shirt sales and the event (inclusive of VAT) to Amnesty International United Kingdom Section: Company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales no. 01735872.

Joyce’s work is an ongoing process of de-extra-terrestrial-isation, a subversion of otherness, alieness and incidental positionality that normative society often projects onto subjects it perceives as marginal. This has taken the form of performance, illustration and collaborative art making workshops with a multitude of communities.

“The quote "The Future is Queer" and image of hands sporting nails adorned with queer symbols are an invocation of change, LGBTQIA empowerment and criticality of the creeping rise in white supremacist, hetero-patriarchal, ableist values. I hope it will resonate with the same urgency as Angela Davis’ quote ‘you have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time’.” - Jacob V  Joyce