Season 2, Episode 7 - Amina and Fox on Women Working Class

Conversations Over a Brew

In this episode, we hear from Amina Atiq and Fox Irving about their experience of Women Working Class.

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Amina is a Yemini-Scouse poet and performance artist whose work explores the identity and experience of the Yemini diaspora living in Liverpool. Amina is also an award-winning community activist and anti-racism campaigner and they are a current Humboldt Residency Fellow.

Fox is a Queer, Working-Class artist, and through their work they investigate how art can be used as a tool of empowerment by their own marginalised communities. They ask: what keeps people in place, what affords fluidity, and what kinds of assembly can be transformative?

Amina and Fox met during Women Working Class North West - a working group led by Fox for Women artists and producers from Working Class or Benefit Class backgrounds in the North West. Amina was one of the artists who took part.

LINKS/RESOURCES:

• Amina Atiq
• Fox Irving
• Women Working Class
• Does class still matter? Webinar discussion with Beverley Skeggs and Andrew Sayer
• What does Working Class feel like?
• Audio recording and responses to Beverley Skeggs' acaemic paper ‘Feeling Class’.

Read more and download the episode transcript ⁠here⁠.

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Conversations Over a Brew is a podcast series from St Helens based arts organisation Heart of Glass, consisting of intimate recorded conversations exploring the stories of the people we make art with.

www.heartofglass.org.uk