„Nie twoja broszka”. Biżuteria jako forma protestu w czasie Ogólnopolskich Strajków Kobiet w latach 2016–2021
“It Isn’t Your Thing…”. Jewellery as a Form of Protest at the Time of the All-Poland Women’s Strike in 2016–2021

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with jewellery created during mass public protests against government attempts to introduce a total ban on pregnancy termination. Almost from the very beginning strikes spreading across the country were accompanied by jewellery. Created by artists, activists, or committed users (according to so-called DIY principles), jewellery become a distinct carrier of emotions and views. It expressed solidarity with the strikers by means of subtle allusions and a game of associations, at the same time producing new symbols of the struggle for women’s rights, such as an umbrella and red lightning. Jewellery made in conditions of strong social polarization can be analysed within the context of “tribalism”, discussed by the French sociologist Michel Mafiosi already in the 1980s. It also opens another chapter in the history of Polish patriotic and engagé jewellery.

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