Lochhead is a republican and vocal supporter of Scottish independence, having performed with pro-independence group National Collective,[21] and opined in The Guardian that Robert Burns would have voted for independence.[22]
Lochhead is also well known as a feminist, both from her writing and public appearances;[23] she has said in the past, 'feminism is like the hoovering, you just have to keep doing it.'[24]
In 2012, Lochhead travelled to Palestine, and was deeply affected by what she saw in the West Bank.[25] She has been a firm opponent of the Israeli occupation, and a supporter of the call for a cultural boycott of Israel.[26] In 2014, she was involved in preparing A Bird is Not a Stone, an anthology of contemporary Palestinian poetry translated into the languages of Scotland.[27]
Lochhead is openly critical of Scottish arts funding body Creative Scotland.[28]
