'Ambivalently Yours'

"Ambivalently Yours is an anonymous online persona created to facilitate the exploration of feminist convictions and concerns.  Fuelled by a decade of employment in the fashion industry, juxtaposed with an investment in feminist art, my work as Ambivalently Yours aims to highlight the potential for political resistance that exists within conflicting emotions. Part of being a feminist is about advocating for a woman’s right to choose. This right, however, does not imply there is only one choice, or that a final decision needs to be reached in order to achieve political change. For example, my commitment to feminist artistic practices could only occur once I gave myself permission to concurrently embrace my love of fashion and the colour pink, two things often associated with the patriarchal domination of women. This refusal to choose between traditional femininity and radical feminism allowed for another space to exist: not a space of indecision but rather a space of undeciding.  To quote queer theorist Judith Jack Halberstam: “I explore a feminist politics that issues not from a doing but from an undoing, not from a being or becoming women but from a refusal to be or become a woman as she has been defined and imagines within Western Philosophy.” It is within this refusal to be and to choose that Ambivalently Yours cultivates relationships of empathy and feminist agency within an online community of like-minded in-betweeners." - Ambivalently Yours