To celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage, Amnesty International and Everpress have teamed up with nine women and non-binary artists to create 'Rebellion', a collection of limited-edition T-shirts to promote human rights defenders worldwide.
The 'Rebellion' T-shirt project is part of Amnesty's Write for Rights campaign, which supports female activists who have been persecuted for leading powerful global movements, including women affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law and Marielle Franco, an LGBTQ and black rights activist who was shot dead by security forces in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year.
"Sexual harassment, the denial of reproductive freedoms and gender-based online violence are just a few of the abuses women, trans and non-binary people face every single day. But around the world people are rising for their rights," says Kate Allen, director of Amnesty UK. "The movement for gender justice and equality is strong, powerful, brave, courageous and determined. We’re delighted to be collaborating with Everpress and this exciting group of artists to create a range of T-shirts so that people can wear their rebellion, protest or statement with pride."
The T-shirts are available at Everpress for £25 each, with 50% of profits going towards Amnesty's support for defenders of women's rights. All designs are available for three weeks only (until 26th November) and feature illustrations by visual artists Bambi, Alice Skinner, Hazel Mead, Age of Reason, Camilla Perkins, Leyla Reynolds and Jacob V Joyce, Nomad Clan and Margarita Rebolledo Hernández.
Click through to see some of the T-shirts...
Bambi
"The suffragette Emily Davison is my hero. Davison was a woman of almost unimaginable courage who repeatedly ran the gravest personal risks in pursuit of the campaign for women’s votes," says Bambi, who based her design on suffragette Emily Davison.
Amnesty International Suffragette Vandal, $25, available at Everpress
Ali Mapletoft
"I’m inspired by memories of the women from my childhood. Every woman has a voice, and it's through using our voices that we rise," shares Ali Mapletoft.
Amnesty International Together We Rise, $25, available at Everpress
Alice Skinner
"I have formed and am part of so many incredible online spaces for women online, who always have each other's backs and I thought my illustration would be a great way to demonstrate this allyship and women coming together on the internet to help create communities," says Alice Skinner.
Amnesty International Keyboard Warriors, $25, available at Everpress
Camilla Perkins
"It shocks me that even in 2018 in Northern Ireland the human rights of women are being breached by not allowing them safe and free access to abortion services," says Camilla Perkins, whose 'My Choice' design was inspired by Amnesty’s campaign for abortion rights in Northern Ireland.
Amnesty International My Choice, $25, available at Everpress
Jacob V Joyce
"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'," says Jacob V Joyce.
Amnesty International Future Is Queer, $25, available at Everpress
Hazel Mead
"The issue of online violence was something that I hadn’t seen tackled much before so this subject matter intrigued me. I wanted it to be a message about holding social media companies to account," says Hazel Mead, who based her design on the work of online violence campaigner Seyi Akiwowo.
Amnesty International Toxic Twitter, $25, available at Everpress
Leyla Reynolds
"I wanted to depict unity in the face of adversity in this piece, which is why I named it after the Audre Lorde quote 'I am deliberate and afraid of nothing' in order to demonstrate the unity we embody when we engage in truly intersectional feminism," says Leyla Reynolds.
Amnesty International I Am Deliberate, $25, available at Everpress
Margarita Rebolledo Hernández
"The idea for this illustration was born from the brainstorming for a direct action, and shows characters that also have children with them. This is to counter the fake narrative that is sometimes heard from anti-choicers, arguing that pro-choice activists are against life, or against newborns. It is quite the opposite: campaigning for reproductive rights means being supportive of a woman's right to decide over her body," says Margarita Rebolledo Hernández.
Amnesty International Our Bodies Our Rights, $25, available at Everpress
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