Year: 2025
Type: letter
Abstract: This interview between the poet Cherry Smyth and the writer Laura Guy focuses on Smyth's contribution to feminist and queer activism and cultural production after she arrived in London from Ireland in the early 1980s. The conversation covers a range of activities in which Smyth was involved in the ensuing years, including the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and the Troops Out Movement; feminist and community film and video production; Irish women's writing and her contribution as a cultural critic to the formation of new queer perspectives and politics in the early 1990s, particularly in her books *Lesbians Talk: Queer Notions* (1992) and *Damn Fine Art: By New Lesbian Artists* (1996). In the correspondences and fractures signalled by these connected yet heterogeneous practices, the category of "queer" emerges as a site of potentiality not only in the recent past but also for a younger generation of artists working in Ireland today.
Source: British Art Studies
Authors: Laura Guy, Cherry Smyth
Institutions: Glasgow School of Art, Yale University, Paul Mellon Centre
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: Yale University
OpenAlex ID: W4412527686