Profile: Yas Necati

Lives in: London, UK.

Email: yasthatannoyingfeminist@aol.co.uk

Create:  I'm a crazy blogging activist. At the moment life is revolving around exams and finishing my first novel about a book-loving feminist with neon blue hair.

Other creative stuff: I'm a poetry enthusiast and visual artist. 

I like cats. 

I'm organising a protest to try and put an end to Page 3. (If you'd like to come along it'll be on Saturday 6th July. There will be biscuits.) 

I've made two installations in the past year and continue to splatter paint all over the house.

I write under a personal blog yassayshi.blogspot and I also write for a positive-body-image group in America poweredbygirl.org. I recently started a blog for the cats. Sometimes they like to tell humans how to run the world. I let them share their opinions alongside adorable pictures of themselves feministcats.blogspot .

What I love about Feminism: There is no judgement. We can be anyone. We can be free.

Profile: Grace Denton

Create: My main creative thing is music. I am in a number of bands, mainly The Middle Ones (indie-ramshackle-folk-pop) and EXPENSIVE (electronic-rnb inspired-pop). I am an artist but I don't have one specific practice. I work with film, photography, music and performance, and collaborate on (too) many things.

themiddleones.com

expensiveincapitalletters.bandcamp.com

Other creative stuff: I run a small publishing imprint, Often and MIstakes, with my friend Rose Robbins. We showcase new work of artists through print and video. We are currently branching out into workshops and our main focus is involving hard-to-reach communities in contemporary art. oftenandmistakes.co.uk

Feminism: There's a lot to say about this! The crux of the matter is SEXISM SUCKS. I'm going to go into more detail in a FeministCreate interview that will be posted on the site soon.

Profile: Dave Miles

Lives in: Montpelier, Bristol.
Email: davemiles@rediffmail.com

Create: My project is a music broadcast on local radio. The show is A cup of tea and a piece of cake and has been running(on & off) for four years on Bcfm(Bristol Community fm Radio). The main theme of the broadcast is to showcase local(or nearby) talent; be it Musicians, bands, poets or storytellers. They perform live on the show and we chat about stuff. To date there have been 142 Broadcasts and i've interviewed over 150 acts of various description. There's so much talent around!

Other creative stuff: Occasionally perform at Bristol open mic nights (mainly Presence & Arts House)
Toil very hard on my allotment.
Play cricket in summer for a friendly team of oldens called Bristol Venturers.

Why I love Feminism?
Because we're all equal, but blokes like to think they run the show. I like to think feminism at least keeps that in check.



I have an archive website for the music performed on my radio broadcast
http://acupofteaandapieceofcake.com/

Profile: Sophie Barras (Pyklops)

 

Lives in: Cardiff, Wales (originally Birmingham)

Create: Over the past 2-3 years I have been working on creative projects in a wide range of mediums, sizes and shapes. I paint and draw mainly female characters, mainly depicting my moods, inspired by music and my environment. My photography and films are mainly documentary based, and I like to shoot with both medium format and 35mm film.

I'm one of 5 partners who run a Community Print Workshop, 'The Printhaus' in Cardiff and have worked over the past 2 years taking photos and painting with Best Joined Up, a live art collective based in the North West, as well as documenting the the filming process of music videos and short films, as well as my own production

Other creative stuff: I've designed and printed a series of garments, for a sponsored bike ride across Cuba, to raise money for the Women's Workshop in Cardiff.

I mix up my logical and creative self by undertaking a mixture of roles throughout the week, as I'm also an IT consultant and a single mum, to my 16 year old daughter. Many of the things I create or depict have her in mind, as I am keen to show her and her friends a positive approach to life, to encourage others to keep trying new things, learning and not to be restrained by the world, it's pressures or negativity.

 Feminism: I've always been inspired by strong women and resisted the demands to go down the 'good little girl' route. I got absorbed into the early years of hip hop, and later, soul artists. Surrounded by a strong female message has helped me through raising a child alone in my early 20's. The Cuba bike ride is my chance to pay back my gratitude to a tireless group of women, who have worked to help give women like my self the chance to earn a decent living and have faith in themselves. Everyday feminists help the world to inch forward, no matter if their message is quiet encouragement or rooftop wailing..

sophiebarras.blogspot.com

Cuba2013womensworkshop.bigcartel.com

mixcloud.com/lilmizmc

facebook.com/artbypyklops

Profile: Consuelo Giorgi/ Babes in Horrorland

Lives in: London, UK but originally 100% Italian

Create: Mix Feminism and Horror, Gore and Women Power, there is a vision of Horror as mainly male-orientated, I am equally into horror and womens rights. I want to create an horrorific universe on a female and feminist point of view.

No Talent

Profondo Rosso

Discordia

Other creative stuff: Photography, short movies, videos, play bass guitar and screaming in a new band DEMENTIA 13

"Be proud of yourself, your gender, every inch of your body and soul!"


www.babesinhorrorland.com