I find it interesting though that anyone would associate the phrase with an “anti-choice” abortion movement when the word choose is right there on the shirt (encouraging choice, just not encouraging the choice of abortion). The t-shirt was also worn by members of Queen, both in film clips and on stage.These pop icons were pro-gay, pro-women, pro-Black. We choose to be part of the locomotion of history, the festival of the oppressed. Ours is authentic and I believe in a woman’s right to choose.’In fact Hamnett has become well-known for using the fashion industry to make statements, often less ambiguous than CHOOSE LIFE.
Italy | English (US) | € (EUR) 2 Original Price €18.29 But empowering mothers to choose to carry their pregnancies to term for parenting or adoption is not “anti-choice” at all. Set where you live, what language you speak, and the currency you use. Launched in 1983, it was part of a range of protest T-shirts by designer Katherine Hamnett. Saying no will not stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make them less relevant or more repetitive. Rightly or wrongly, I’m not alone in my associating it with an AIDS campaign: a Google image search for ‘aids headlines 1984 uk’ turned up numerous pictures of George Michael, but it appears my memory simply created a pastiche of quite separate stories.1984 was also the year Bob Geldof founded Band Aid. It was a time of boosting Western hegemony through arms manufacturing and deployment.1984 was the time of radical deregulation, ‘trickle down’ economics, extreme tax breaks for the rich and a freeze on wages. Uh oh! In my mind, George’s t-shirt had always been associated with the campaign against AIDS.I was six years old when ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’ came out. The day George Michael died, I did what any mourning child of the 80s lost in the logic of late-capitalist consumer-fandom would do: I bought a t-shirt. Hamnett graduated from Saint Martin's School of Art and founded the Katharine E. Hamnett clothes label in 1979. You searched for: wham choose life! You've been successfully signed up! We learn from those who witnessed and survived the AIDS epidemic in the face of Reagan and Thatcher. CHOOSE LIFE is even more relevant now.It has been Hamnett’s highest grossing design of all time.To clear up one further misconception, because it’s a popular one: the CHOOSE LIFE t-shirt predates Irving Welsh’s 1993 Like 1984, 2016 seemed to be a year of death – especially for those who grew up in the 1980s heyday of neoliberalism. He was also a strong, visible and vocal supporter of LGBTIQ rights, an open and regular non-gay punter in the London gay clubbing scene, and performed at numerous high-profile awareness-raising gigs in both the UK and the US. A well written and really enjoyable read. Original Price €26.50 It’s important to educate ourselves and others and support those living with HIV/AIDS.
Annie Vallotton and Deut 30:19 “Choose Life” I love the shirt- whatever meaning it takes on to you is still a positive message. We choose collectivity, solidarity, resistance.Kate Davison lives between Melbourne and Berlin and writes on the topics of racism, religion and sexuality in Europe.I forgot to comment on this when I read it the first time, Kate. Sale Price €16.46 CHOOSE LIFE, she said, was a comment on war and conflict. Original Price €18.29 We choose not the vague notion of ‘freedom’ but liberation from oppression. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and one-of-a-kind products and gifts related to your search. In a public cease-and-desist notice, she protested: ‘The US anti-abortion lobby attempted to appropriate CHOOSE LIFE. So there’s that.I now know how much older I am than you;-) You look fabber than GM, by the way, may he rest in peace.So, you think there are no pro-life gays? Send me exclusive offers, unique gift ideas, and personalized tips for shopping and selling on Etsy. We can all be floating signifiers with detachable associations in this post post modern era.“Choose life” is much older. Other slogans included WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR BAN NOW, PRESERVE THE RAINFORESTS, SAVE THE WORLD, STOP KILLING WHALES, and EDUCATION NOT MISSILES. This was the year Margaret Thatcher identified trade union leaders as ‘the enemy within’. If CHOOSE LIFE is devoid of specific meaning, then I choose to interpret my t-shirt as an appeal to optimism of the will (with thanks to Antonio Gramsci); as a celebratory call against despair, demoralisation and alienation.How do we CHOOSE LIFE beyond buying a t-shirt? CHOOSE LIFE is even more relevant now. Sale Price €16.46 Original Price €18.29 Original Price €18.29
In 2008, her website bore the intermingled messages of left liberal fashion, Buddhist principles and imperative logic of late capitalist ‘consumer choice’: CHOOSE LIFE was relevant then. Toys & Entertainment Did you scroll all this way to get facts about Original Price €18.29 Next page
Your confirmation will be sent to your email address. Original Price €26.50 Original Price €18.29 Original Price €18.29 In the photo, taken at Midsumma Festival, I beam smugly at the clever triple-layered statement I’m making: GAY on GAY on (a) GAY. We choose international solidarity. We muster, we galvanise. There was a problem subscribing you to this newsletter. I do find amusing the assumptions people read into others’ commentary.