ABSTRACT
Speaking of IMELDA discuss how they counter restrictive Irish legislation on reproduction from London. Analysing the use of performative resistance, they firstly situate their work within the legacies of 1980s London-Irish feminist activism to reflect on the radical aspects of diasporic communities. IMELDA then consider the ‘performative activism of “loose” women who both violate and affirm social constructions and projections of “normative” femininity’ (Gale, 2015: 314). The group argue that IMELDA actions are a messy alliance between art and politics enabling a loosely framed DIY aesthetics to spill out from artistic representation into the political sphere and respond to crude propositions.
