4. Women in Transition, 2021

This project takes its impetus from the history of the Deptford People’s Heritage Museum, which was initiated by the group We Women at the Pepys Resource Centre to support the local community. During International Women’s Week 2021, the Museum held a series of events bringing women together to discuss their experiences, responses and largely un-recognised labour in supporting their families and communities during Covid19. The events invited women to bring objects and interpret them through a radical ‘list-making’ methodology developed in collaboration with Dr Jorella Andrews, the results of which will be shared in an online exhibition following the project.

One of the events held was Women and their Experience of the Pandemic. Hosted by Shiori Adachi on the 8th March 2021, it was a moment of international exchange, proposing a closed cross-cultural conversation between women in Fukuoka, Japan and Deptford through objects and stories. The event asked women to reflect on how they spent their days during the pandemic, and to find similarities and differences. This collaboration resulted in a research file titled How Do Women Survive A Pandemic? Women’s Voices from Deptford & Fukuoka, 2021, compiled and edited by Goldsmiths BA Curating student Shiori Adachi.