Pissing Women
by Sophy Rickett
Pissing Women, visual artist and photographer Sophy Rickett’s influential series of portraits of women pissing on the in public, caused a storm in the art world in 1994. Now, thirty years later, these era-defining images are reproduced with testimonies from the writers, musicians, artists and creatives on whose work they have had a profound influence.
Featuring positioning essays from and interviews with musician St Vincent, poet Eileen Myles, artist Chila Burman, choreographer Holly Blakey, filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, actor Lily Cole, comedian Sophie Duker, photographer Juno Calypso and more, Rickett’s pioneering exploration of female identity, memory and the upheaval of the post-Thatcher years is revisited here – and remains as remarkable in the 21st century as it did three decades ago.
PAPERBACK PUBLISHED ON: 11/09/2025
£15.00
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About the editors
Kate Ellis is a writer based in London. Her short fiction has been published in the Open Pen Anthology, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, 100 Voices, and The London Short Story Prize Anthology among others. She runs the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize, hosts the BLB Podcast, works for Inpress Books, and one day might finish writing her short story collection.
Robert Loyko-Greer is a writer based in London, where he works for the publisher Profile Books. He co-founded the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize in 2017.