Ren Aldridge
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Ren Aldridge is an artist and arts based researcher currently working as a research assistant on the Elisabeth List Fellowship project Feminist Ageing Futures in Datafied Worlds. Her PhD research combines this project with The Resistance Quilt Project, to explore the possibilities of arts-based methods for disrupting disciplinary regimes of anticipation in relation to both ageing technologies and gender-based violence. The Resistance Quilt Project uses arts-based methods to explore community-based resistance to feminicide. It emerged from Ren’s involvement in local demonstrations against feminicide and TEDx talk on creative resistance to feminicide, from which she also developed a seminar course for Interdisciplinary Gender tudies Masters Students.
Ren’s research interests include gender-based violence, anticipation, vulnerability and discourses around women’s safety and protection, as well as participatory arts-based methods. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London and a Master of Research in Creative Practice from Glasgow School of Art, where her thesis focused on the politics of voice and the practice of passing the microphone at punk concerts. Ren is also the vocalist of feminist punk band Petrol Girls.
Publications:
Aldridge, R. (2025). Visibility, Vulnerability and Violence: Exploring the Risks of Creative Efforts to Make Feminicide Visible. Contention. The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 13 (2). https://doi.org/10.3167/cont.2025.130202