The We Are Every Woman project was born to offer an opportunity for people to share their experience, either of unwanted male ‘attention’ or daily life as a woman living in a 21st-century patriarchy. The project aim was to facilitate a dialogue on harassment, often unseen and deemed as ‘banter’ as well as domestic abuse and sexual violence, which is still cloaked in victim shaming and in many cases unspoken about. Through workshops, a space was created offering people a safe place to express themselves through visual means. Collecting the stories and emotions from various communities formed part of a peaceful public protest movement. The workshops were free of charge to ensure inclusivity and were held at the Vagina Museum London, Blooming Art Warrington, Soho House Birmingham, Newington Green Meeting House London (including the charity Xenia), Reading University fine art department, Oxford community centre and two undisclosed groups of domestic abuse survivors. The patches of fabric, some with hand-stitched words, some written, some expressed through images began to tell an all too familiar story. These workshops ran alongside an open call on the social media page www.instagram.com/we_are_every_woman where pieces were sent directly to me, some with a name and a further narrative, some anonymously. I was interested in the public's work being the artwork itself. Their voices are empowered. The occasional media attention and movements like #metoo #enoughisenough are great but it will take more to change the engrained narrative of cultural gender based violence. The project resonated with many women and therefore will continue the conversation about the need for change. Whilst stitching the fabric pieces to the 250 cm tall sculpture, I felt it was vital to include the names of women murdered by men or where a man was the primary suspect, covering one arm in tags with the names and age of women and sometimes their young children who had been murdered alongside them. I felt that it was vital to highlight the connection between the comments made to women, which are all too often seen as ‘jokes’, and the fact that women are being murdered. I am not suggesting that every time a man makes a ‘flippant’ sexual remark to a woman, either in the street or within the home, it will end in murder. However, I believe it's part of the same culture of aggression.