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I’m rolling my eyes at you, Whitney Museum. Hyperallergic breaks down race and gender demographics in the new Whitney Museum‘s Inaugural Exhibition. Meanwhile, Syreeta McFadden believes that “ the lack of female genitals on statues seems thoughtless until you see it repeated.”
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Japanese artist, Megumi Igarashi is on trial arguing that her artwork modelled on her genitalia is not obscene. Visual Art Go here to see “ 15 feminist artists respond to the censorship of women’s bodies online.” One of my all-time favorite websites, Tits and Sass reposted an excerpt from a piece called “ Why You Shouldn’t Study Sex Workers.” Molly Crabapple illustrates “ how police profile and shame sex workers.” Sex Positivity Go here to support a feminist sex toy shop in St. Smoothiefreak gives us a quick lesson in intersectional feminism… USING PIZZA! The White House now has a gender-neutral bathroom.Īnn Friedman reminds us that “ women can’t end the wage gap on their own” over at New York Magazine. Herstory Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for president. And for more on feminist filmmaking, check out this interview with Meera Menon over at The Mary Sue. Times Square is now a heat sensitive camera thanks to the mastermind of film and video artist, Peggy Ahwesh!įearless feminist film producer and writer Laura Goode writes an epic treatise on making movies by and for women. If you missed these films, maybe it’s time to seek them out. If you’re in Brooklyn, you may have caught “ Space is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film” which screened Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II The Terrordome, the first feature film ever directed by a black British woman. And watch a video about the new book, The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop featuring WS contributor Morgan Parker–who has two events you should check out this weekend if you’re in D.C!įilm The New Yorker’s “ Recreating a Feminist Revolutionary” discusses Elizabeth Subrin’s 1997 film Shulie, which focused on radical feminist Shulamith Firestone. Rebecca Solnit asks us to abolish high school.Įver wonder what Kim Gordon thinks of Iggy Azalea? Or how Tavi Gevinson felt graduating High School AND premiering a play? Well, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE to find out! RADAR Productions is having a feminist writers’ DIARY AUCTION to benefit its 2015 programming!Ĭheck out a poem by Weird Sister contributor Becca Klaver in the latest issue of Fence. If you like comics, this “ queer 50s high school girl gang webcomic” is a must read. Thank you, Everyday Feminism, for “ 5 books written by queer and trans women that set me free.” Over at Good Magazine, poet Azure Antoinette asks us to write a poem and share it… now.
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But it isn’t the unifying theme. You know what is? How many women wrote beautiful novels and stories and poems and essays and plays and scripts and songs in spite of all the crap they endured.” – Cheryl Strayed “ on how to write like a motherfucker.” “Yes, we can rattle off a list of women writers who’ve killed themselves and yes, we may conjecture that their status as women in the societies in which they lived contributed to the depressive and desperate state that caused them to do so. Toni Morrison’s “radical vision” in the New York Times: “Because, me? I’m not going anywhere soon.” Miller discusses Heidi Julavitz‘ latest work over at Bustle. One of my favorite literary critics, Laura I. What does it mean to be a “critic’s critic” and a “feminist’s feminist”? “ The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” discusses queer theorist, Lauren Berlant’s The Female Complaint. Listen to what makes Roxane Gay a “bad feminist.”Ĭongratulations to both brilliant poet Bernadette Meyer and one of my personal literary inspirations, Alison Hawthorne Deming, for being awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. One writer’s take on “ why we should all be spinsters.” I’m down. Mallory Hellman reminds us of the “ power of hate speech.”
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Weekly thinks that Carol Kaye is one of the greatest musicians you’ve probably never heard of. You might want to get your tickets to see her at the Hollywood Bowl this September. Grace Jones’ The Disco Yearsgets reviewed over at The Quietus. If you’ve been living under a rock, then you might not know that Boston declared April 9th “Riot Grrrl Day.” Check out Francesca Lewis’ exceptional essay about it in Curve. Yoko Ono’s “Woman Power” is #18 on Billboard’s dance charts! Listen to it now.Ĭheck out this conversation with Sleater-Kinney. Pixable via Gif allows us to see how many men and how few women will be playing at a music festival near you this Summer. I was just living my life.” Marine Girls’ and Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn tells The Guardian. Music “When I didn’t appear in public, I wasn’t a recluse.