CHRIS FREMANTLE

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

All the inter relationships with work/domestic labor, sexualisation, violence, racialisation, socialism, Mrs Thatcher, etc. Lots of really interesting works I hadn’t seen before. Lots of provocative activist approaches. Important inclusion of examples of zones and magazines, of postal works and of all the Workshops

The first panel highlights the wider social context including women’s rights or lack of them in marriage, equal pay or not, racialised discrimination, and the decriminalisation of gay male relationships in 1967. Problem is I’m at the exhibition in Edinburgh and in Scotland the law didn’t change for men over 21 until 1981. Not good. One of the key threads in feminist and queer theorising is inequalities and some are manifest in geographies. Curators should have caught that.