1908
Suffragettes fill Hyde Park in London wearing purple, white and green, many with Votes for Women sashes across their chests.
Up close
Every slogan is embroidered. Tap one to see the tee.
Tees
Pick your slogan
Bestseller
Too Clumsy to be Around Fragile Masculinity
R500
May You Have the Confidence of a Mediocre White Man
R500
Spread Hummus not Hate
R500
I Scream for Equality
R500
Bestseller
Girls Just Wanna Have Fundamental Human Rights
R500
Cat Naps Because Smashing the Patriarchy is Exhausting
R500
Mansplaining Survivor
R500
Pro Choice, Pro Feminism, Pro Dogs
R500
Corrections
Fixed it for you.
- Girls just wanna have
funfundamental human rightsShop it: Girls Just Wanna Have Fundamental Human Rights Smile, sweetheart.I'll smile when you're funny.Shop it: I'll Smile When You're Funny- Mind the
thighwage gapShop it: Care Less About Thigh Gaps & More About Wage Gaps - Destroy the
planetpatriarchyShop it: Destroy The Patriarchy not The Planet Hoodie - Spread
hatehummusShop it: Spread Hummus not Hate
Washington, 26 August 1970
The personal is political.
Carol Hanisch, 1970
From Dana
Why WOMXN
Caring about equality shouldn't be a quiet, private thing, so we stitch it onto tees and let it start conversations.
Every collection will give back to a different women led initiative, named at launch, and we'll share what we gave once it's done. We care just as much about how things are made: in Cape Town, in small runs, built to be worn for years. We won't always get it right, but we'll keep listening, learning and telling you how it's going.
Dana
Read why I started WOMXNHoodies
Slogan on the back
A small W on the front, the slogan stitched across the back. Good for windy Cape Town evenings.
A short history
We didn't invent the slogan tee
Women have been wearing what they believe for more than a hundred years. A few moments we think about a lot.
c. 1910
Nannie Helen Burroughs, here with the Woman's National Baptist Convention, argues that Black women need the vote to protect their rights.
1919
Women march through Cairo against British rule, led by Huda Sha'arawi, who goes on to found the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923.
1956
About 20,000 women march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria against the pass laws. It's why South Africa marks Women's Day on 9 August.
1970
Carol Hanisch's essay gives the second wave a line people still use: the personal is political.
1984
Designer Katharine Hamnett meets Margaret Thatcher wearing a protest slogan on her T shirt. The photo goes around the world.
1991
Riot grrrl bands start photocopying their own feminist zines and handing them out at punk shows.
2022
WOMXN starts stitching feminist slogans onto tees in Cape Town.
Books we love
Read like a feminist
A book a month, mostly by African women writers. Classics, new voices and the ones we keep pressing into friends' hands.
See the whole shelfTap a book to pull it off the shelf.
In real life
Try them on
The whole range hangs at The Conscious Kitchen in Gardens. Order online and you can collect there for free.
The Conscious Kitchen
34 Kloof Street, Gardens
Cape Town
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