Campaign M: Nottingham Feminist Exhibition Showcases Our Plea for Postnatal Support

We are so appreciative of the warm reception of Campaign M. Without it, its progression could not have been achieved. We pushed boundaries with our empowering, provocative and oh so guerilla imagery. 

We’ve already jumped so many hurdles, pushing through LinkedIn’s algorithm, although not without some strife. One post regarding postnatal depression was censored, a topic which has touched many hearts and provided much validation and comfort to those who did access it. We pushed through and reached so many who faced psychological, physical and professional boundaries as a result of childbearing.

There are specific movements happening that are challenging censorship around women’s bodies online. Founder of  #CensHERship, co- founder Clio Wood feels similarly to me in that;  “Creators, charities, medical practitioners and brands are being censored constantly through algorithms picking up words like sex, vagina, vulva, or period. Authors end up using written symbols and numbers to disguise these words and bleep them out in speech to try to get around this censorship, which is just ridiculous. 

A similar incidence prior to Campaign M’s censoring was when Microsoft censored words like breast and nipple from the transcripts of my dissertation, to which I complained, these are not swear/ naughty words. It’s farcical and does not help with campaigns like those we are publishing, that are trying to change the narrative and desexualise the breast.

We’re pushing the status-quo, so why not push it further?

A selection of Campaign M’s imagery have jumped out of the digital world, and are now on display in Exhibition!

We are hopeful that this new capacity will push Campaign M further to help spread the word that the impacts of childbearing in every capacity are NORMAL, and don’t have to be battled alone.  

We want recognition for the women who have endlessly and silently struggled for fear of professional and societal condemnation.

So here it is, Campaign M, physically at the Dear Sisters exhibition at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham.  And we think it’s a perfect start to Campaign M’s secondary outreach. Dear Sisters exhibits an archive of women’s activism-based materials. Curated by The Nottingham Feminist Archive group, which consists of local women, some who were active in the Women’s Liberation Movement. The exhibition includes magazines, posters, campaign badges and personal memories from activist interviewees. 

Campaign M holds a place in the upcoming and current activism portion of the exhibition. Using some of the provocative images used for the Campaign.

We hope to reach new audiences, mothers, future mothers and anyone with a mother to recognise and fight the taboo.

And we are keen to bring all change-makers, renegades and all those willing along for the ride.

Read the latest updates on recent progress regarding women’s health censorship here,

Olivia x

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August 1, 2024 10:56 am breastfeeding support, CampaignM, censHERship, feminism, feminist, motherhood