Nomadways, a  collective of  international kick-ass artivists, organised the WeMen project - a 15 day workshop in May 2018, bringing together 24 youth workers, visual artists, gender activists and theoreticians from 8 European countries to work collectively on issues of gender equality and equity.

In order to involve  young people in reflection on gender issues through the use of creative digital tools, the production of the project was to be largely in the form of comic strips and a collective comic book. Nomadways have produced a booklet describing the different workshops - feel free to be inspired here! Wemen_booklet_S

The Expussytionists

Several 'deviant' off-shoots of the WeMen collective were inspired to congregate, coagulate and continue to co-create after the workshop - becoming The Expussytionists -  determined on bringing the gender bending revolution to you through continued art-action diversification.

or how we became a crack(ed) team of gender benders and stereotype stompers.

Nomadways artivists Androgenius Dreamboat, KindaKinky Kickass and HandyAlandy are kicking around a few ideas in Homade......ideas like 'artists rock!' and 'what's for tea?' and 'why do women always make the tea?'
and...
'why don't more women make films?'
'who says girls should wear pink?'
'Why is our media full of sexist images?'
'how do sexist stereotypes control our lives?'
'Is gender really binary?'

Homade  becomes the nerve centre for an intensive and rigourous 'joyous bordel' 15 day workshop.

A motley band of 20 diverse and divergent artivists arrive at Homade, the space/time-warp bubble artivist base-camp, and are put through their paces by the Nomadways team, and each other, in an intensive series of workshops - a gender bender initiation into the art of smashing stereotypes.
The diverse assignments, tasks and practical experiments range from the sublime to the ridiculous: from dada poetry to posing as a lamp, from trial by giant butterfly to discovering the joys of female peepee aids, from rainbow nourishment to playing ‘Life’s a bitch’, from crossing the line of the oppressed to wearing De Bono’s 6 hats and yet more….

Much laughter and music, some tears and an enormous amount of creativity produce copious amounts of artwork, some of it brilliant some of it not!

After two weeks of intensive gender bender immersion therapy a disheveled collection of out of this world creatures emerge blinking at the end of the rainbow.

These are THE WEMEN!

...    and amongst the 24 Wemen are the off-beat off-shoot who are set to create their own gender bender revolution!