Street-Fighting Manc

Theme: Punky Women

Sylvia Pankhurst-one the first punks of the 20th century.She was born into the suffragette movement, but that wasn’t enough. While her mother Emmeline and sister Christabel fought for votes, Sylvia fought to go further — for working-class women, for single mothers, for the people most often left out of progress.She didn’t reject the movement — she outgrew its limits. She clashed with her family, broke with convention and carved her own radical path, led by a sense of justice that didn’t fit into tidy campaigns.This design channels that punk defiance. With a bold pink and yellow palette inspired by classic punk aesthetics, it’s a visual reminder of where she came from — and how far she pushed beyond it. In this design, she’s deliberately small. Dwarfed by big, loud, man-made words. But make no mistake — her presence is pivotal-not just in the design but also in the society in which she lived and for which she fought. It's a quiet riot that's punk in spirit and serves history with a side of rebellion. Just the way Sylvia would've liked it. Stamped with “Street Fighting Manc” (a nod to both the Rolling Stones lyric and her Manchester roots), and quoting a lyric from the song:“Hey! Said my name is called disturbance.” Because she was.