The telling is political: collectively speaking our collective story

The publication of the book See Red: Feminist Posters 1974-1990 (Baines, J. Mackie, S. Robinson , A. and Stevenson, P., 2016) is the focal point of this article. It is presented here as an artefact, contextualised with its production and dissemination in order to take account of: the significant circumstances leading to the book being made at this particular historical moment, the interest in feminist art collectives and radical art and graphic practices which led up to publication, the collective mode of its production by collective members, the impact which further exposure of the posters in the public domain via exhibitions and re-publication resulting from the book’s publication and the significance the book now has for researchers. See Red Women’s workshop was a collective, set up in 1974 by three former art students ‘specifically to make posters to promote Women’s Liberation.’ (Robinson et al 2016).