In contemporary society, cultural production is frequently portrayed as an ever-expanding, increasingly diverse sphere. Yet this narrative of “diversity” and “heightened participation” often obscures a more fundamental question: who holds the authority to define culture? Whose knowledge is preserved, displayed, and inscribed into history? And whose experiences and practices remain persistently overlooked, excluded, or delegitimised? Image from: RibeiroEster This page adopts t

The relationship between gender and power is not a narrative of “gradual progress”, but rather a history of regulation, management and exclusion. Gender has never been a simple identity or social role, but rather a power structure continuously produced, maintained and enforced by the state, law, medicine, technology and cultural discourse. Image from: NelsonLynn This page rejects the notion of gender as a natural or universal fact. Instead, adopting a ‘histories from below’ p

Cultural representations are never neutral presentations of history. Who is seen, how they are seen, and under what conditions they are seen, invariably result from the exercise of power. This page adopts a ‘histories from below’ perspective to explore how visibility shapes cultural history, and how cultural representations simultaneously reproduce, produce, regulate, and exclude specific subjects. In contemporary society, visibility is often understood as a symbol of progres