The Feminist Imaginary Research Network (FIRN)
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Aesthetic Outputs
Exhibitions
Cultures of Head Coverings Exhibition
Disobedient Women: Defiance, Resistance and Creativity Past and Present
Visualizing the Feminist Imaginary – Virtual Exhibition
Exhibition Catalogue Visibility / Invisibility: Gendered (Re)Orderings
Zines
Looking Back to Think Forward Zine
Wasteland Zine
Barbie Expo Zine
Disobedient Women Exhibition Zine
Queens of Industry Zine
Forget Me Knot Zine Draft
Disobedient Women
Videos
The Feminist Aesthetic Pedagogies and Activist Strategies: Encouraging Feminist Imaginaries Metissage
Women’s and Gender Museums
Books
Feminist Adult Educators’ Guide
Graphic Report
Weaving the Feminist Imaginary
Current Research Project
International Collaborative Feminist Study
Connection Workshops
Cartographies of Interruption and Influence: Connection Workshop (Merano, Italy, 2025)
Stories and their tellers: Curating living knowledge for a decolonised, gender just future (University of Arts London)
Agenda – Connection 2024
Stories and their Tellers Abstracts
Video – Connections 2024
The Feminist Imaginary: Creative Pedagogies and Methods for Gender Justice and Change (Lancashire, UK)
Agenda – Connections 2022
Photos – Connections 2022
Interviews
Feminists and feminisms in museums and art galleries: International knowledge exchange and engagement with common research issues – 2019 (Lisbon, Portugal)
Agenda – Connections 2019
Interviews
Photos – Connections 2019
Upcoming Publications
Related Projects
War, militarism, and the everyday: Using fiction and found poems to explore museums as gendered pedagogical institutions (Huddersfield, UK)
Art Activist Barbie
Beyond the Conference
Final Report
Past Research Projects
Women’s Community Arts and Crafts Study,Canada/New Zealand/Aoeterao
Warrior Women: Street Life and the Arts
Human Library at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Adult Education Philosophies and Practices in Art Galleries, Museums and Libraries in Canada and the United Kingdom
Publications
Books and Chapters
Academic Project Designs and Methods: From Professional Development to Critical and Creative Practice
Conference Papers
Journal Articles
Collaborator Initiatives
Exhibition
Exhibition: UCA – Retrospective: Creativity past, present and future.
Gender Museum Korea
Global Projects
Paid Homecare Work in London: Invisible work, invisible knowledges?
Feminist hack, Cinisello Balsamo, Milan
Changing gendered patterns of power,Canada-Italy Innovation Award 2020 Italy
Presentation
Art Activist Barbie
Publication
Gaby Franger Publications
Stories of Hope, Imagination, and Transformative Learning: A Dialogue.
Arts-based methodologies,Victoria Foster
Contacts
Exhibition
UCA – Retrospective: Creativity past, present and future
Gender Museum Korea