Rainey Creative Responses
Untitled by Nandini Patel, Mercy Yap, Christina Wilson, Ayesha Kuwari and Wen Wong
They said it had nothing to do with sex
It was only a necessity to attract him
Highly anomalous and inconvenient
Market forces-different negotiating machinery-
An objectively justified
Accident.
Take heed to the words ‘between her case and his’
The context is important.
A prosthetic for the heart of justice by Alison Howell
Is it an accident? Our existence
Here it is easy to see
Women, an inconvenience
We are nothing
Nothing and unreasonable
There is no need here to justify discrimination
Discussion is prohibited
Take advantage of this silence
No doubts are expressed
Just acceptance
Held
Women are dismissed.
Material Steps by Martin Nedyalkov
do not count the steps
for there was no alternative action
running away from trauma
is not what the law should sanction
immediate danger at material time
is a test that sounds at first fine
but dig at oppression, dig at home crime
that world is not yours, Lord justice, it’s mine
MAN OR WOMAN MADE NO DIFFERENCE TO ME
MAN OR WOMAN MADE NO DIFFERENCE TO ME
THE DOOR WOULD BE WIDE OPEN
WALK STRAIGHT THROUGH IT
HE WAS PAID MORE
ENTITLED
SIMILAR QUALIFICATIONS
ACCIDENT
GENUINE MATERIAL DIFFERENCE
INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION
DELIBERATELY
DISCRIMINATES AGAINST A WOMAN
OBJECTIVELY JUSTIFIED
UNNECESSARY TO CONSIDER THE ARGUMENT FURTHER.
An Accident by Imogen Haywood & Rebecca Barclay
A man. A woman.
Between her case and his.
Same time and on the same conditions,
Nothing to do with sex.
Qualifications and experience were broadly similar,
All happened to be men.
Disparity between the prosthetists,
Irrespective of extrinsic forces.
Treated no less favourably,
No doubt on the evidence.
I did not pay him more because he was a man.
Untitled by Amalia Albu
How can she be respected,
How can she treat her patients,
How can she care for her children,
How can she fight the market forces,
How can she qualify and gain experience,
How can she negotiate with the establishment,
How can it just be a material difference based on sex
When it was just ‘ an accident ’?