Jess de Wahls

[Mollyollydolly]

The Royal Academy have removed Jess' work from their shop due to a handful of complaints that she's 'transphobic'. If you want to support Jess her website is here.
www.jessdewahls.com
So sick of these utterly craven organisations. I hope she has a legal case against them for discrimination.

I note also that RA's daily doodle challenge hasn't been updated since the 16th.
Do you think Jake Garfield was sending a coded message, with his "Draw something you would think but not say", and has been cancelled

Anyway, I've emailed the RA too.

I hadn't heard of Jess before yesterday but I bought some very lovely artwork. Shame on the RA. Well done MNers for raising this issue.

@HereticFanjo

I hadn't heard of Jess before yesterday but I bought some very lovely artwork. Shame on the RA. Well done MNers for raising this issue.

Same here! I spent some pennies, had to pre order which is a good sign!

I’ve seen the ‘draw something you can’t say’ thing today. Some are very funny!

Signed and bought one of her Heretic sewing patches and written to the RA - I used to be a friend, I visit and I've exhibited there. Felt so angry at first but now seeing the huge reaction, I'm starting to feel hope that in we are turning the tide against being silenced.

@toffeebutterpopcorn

I’ve seen the ‘draw something you can’t say’ thing today. Some are very funny!

They are! There was supposed to be a different one every day this week, but they seem to have stopped at Day 3, on 16 June...

[quote WinterTrees]www.patreon.com/JessDeWahls[/quote]
I'm now an entry level heretic :D - love that membership category so much!

My ‘art’ is there... arf...

I love this piece especially the death by a thousand pricks 🤣🤣🤣

uncommongroundmedia.com/stitched-up-with-embroidered-accusations-artist-jess-de-wahls-cancelled/

Just put in an order of lovely patches, and postcards, which I shall leave lying around strategic locations.

I would not have seen her work if she hadn't been removed from the RA shop so a big thankyou to the twats who complained.

For the first time ever, I have lifted my head above the parapet and complained to the Royal Academy about their treatment of Jess de Wahl.

Maybe this was just the final straw, but I can stay silent no longer.

@Lucienandjean

For the first time ever, I have lifted my head above the parapet and complained to the Royal Academy about their treatment of Jess de Wahl.

Maybe this was just the final straw, but I can stay silent no longer.

Good for you. And welcome.

Lucienandjean

Welcome to the fight, sister!

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ra-should-reinstate-jesss-work-and-issue-a-public?utmsource=facebook&utmmmedium=social&utmcampaign=&loc=view-petition

Petition to reinstate her work

Signed. Now at 979.

Putting a petition link directly on here risks having the thread shuffled off to the petitions board even though I'm sure no one on this thread minds it being here.
There's already a thread on the petitions board:

Jess de Wahls - petition asking for her work to be reinstated at the RA www.mumsnet.com/Talk/petitions_noticeboard/4273996-jess-de-wahls-petition-asking-for-her-work-to-be-reinstated-at-the-ra

Purgatory thank you 😉

Not totally brave - I signed the petition with a former surname, but this petition does not have anonymous next to my comment.

I hope the experience the RA is having and the amount of press coverage, will highlight to other organisations how it is better to investigate and use caution. Full throttle virtue signalling, is unwise, especially when RA actions seem to conflict with UK Law.

I've bought something in her shop and subscribed to patreaon so she's doing well form this

If you're feeling frustrated that Jess's main range of stickers are out of stock, her supplementary range is in stock. I think it's because people are glancing down the site and assuming it's a pack of postcards.

www.jessdewahls.com/prints-postcards-1/kwr1jt8ygzhw3b6q8qwy9lyha2vvn8-b9tbs

I love the clitoria patches. Subtle enough that if I ironed one on to a back pocket it would look like a flower to the casual observer. Not sure how much attention I want paid to my bum though so I may have to rethink product placement!

The petition says it's a 'success' so you can't sign it any more. Is that normal?

@Datun

I sincerely hope that the RA, along with any other institutions just learn to say NO.

Art galleries exhibit art, publishers publish books, food companies sell food, beer companies sell beer.

The commercial suicide of trying to appease political viewpoints across-the-board, when they will all conflict is astonishing to me.

The RA has fucked this right up. Now people are drawing attention to the misogyny and crimes of all their artists, thereby exposing their rank hypocrisy in cancelling de Wahls.

It's always going to be lose/lose.

Just say NO.

I am fed up to the back teeth with the sycophantic craven submission on display, the cowards need to grow a fucking backbone and say NO.

Stop politicising and preaching that's not your job.

I bought a few patches too. They are beautiful.
Hope she sues.