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Black Women Will Not be Intimidated

Poster
1980-1 (made)
Artist/Maker
See Red Women's Workshop (printed and published)
Place of origin
London (printed and published)

Poster, screen printed montage of seven photographs in brown ink on a cream background, the text and the central photograph is in red ink. From left to right: a women holding a placard 'Welcome to Britain...'; the arrivals hall at Heathrow; a women in a garment factory; a women with a raised fist; a woman with a placard 'Black women will not be intimidated'; a protest with a banner 'Black people against brutality; a woman holding a baby.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Black History
Object type
Poster
TitleBlack Women Will Not be Intimidated (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Screenprinted
Paper
Screenprint
Brief description
Poster by See Red Women's Workshop, 'Black Women Will Not be Intimidated', screenprint in cream, brown and red, London, 1980-81.
Physical description
Poster, screen printed montage of seven photographs in brown ink on a cream background, the text and the central photograph is in red ink. From left to right: a women holding a placard 'Welcome to Britain...'; the arrivals hall at Heathrow; a women in a garment factory; a women with a raised fist; a woman with a placard 'Black women will not be intimidated'; a protest with a banner 'Black people against brutality; a woman holding a baby.
Dimensions
  • Height: 790mm
  • Width: 530mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Welcome to Britain...
  • Black women will not be intimidated
  • Black people against brutality
Gallery label
(01/07/2023)
Women’s equality

Graphic design has brought attention to the fight for women’s equality for over a hundred years.

In the UK, a key moment was the granting of voting rights to some women in 1918. Feminism expanded in the 1970s to promote equality of the sexes. Since the 1990s, it has moved towards an understanding that the fight for empowerment relates to all underrepresented identities.

3 What a Woman may be, and yet not have the Vote
Designer: The Suffrage Atelier
Date: 1913
Location: England
Materials: Woodcut printed paper
Given by Miss A. E. Norris
Museum no. E.646-1972

4 Black women will not be intimidated
Designer: See Red Women’s Workshop
Date: 1980–81
Location: England
Materials: Screenprint on paper
Given by Suzy Mackie, Pru Stevenson and Bronwen Rice
Museum no. E.91-2011

5 Resisters
Designer: Aqui
Date: 2018
Location: UK
Materials: Risograph on paper
Given by Aqui Thami
Museum no. E.669-2019

6 Women’s liberation is the revolution!!
Designer: Pen Dalton
Date: About 1974
Location: England
Materials: Screenprint on paper
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Museum no. E.788-2004

7 Can you find her?
Designer: UN Women Egypt and DDB
Dubai
Date: 2017
Location: Dubai
Materials: Printed paper

[Young V&A, Design Gallery, Design gives us a voice, group object label]
Credit line
Given by Suzy Mackie, Pru Stevenson and Bronwen Rice
Subject depicted
Feminism
Association
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.91-2011

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Record createdJuly 12, 2011
Record URL
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