Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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What Is Obscenity? The Story Of A Good For Nothing Artist And Her Pussy.
Read more: What Is Obscenity? The Story Of A Good For Nothing Artist And Her Pussy.Rokudenashiko is on a mission to free the vagina. In her native country of Japan, the vaginal slang word “manko” is considered taboo while the penis equivalent, “chinko,” is used freely. Rokudenashiko (the pseudonym of artist Megumi Igarashi) uses her…
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Sad Girl Theory
Read more: Sad Girl TheoryDuring a moment when the facade of social media seems to be cracking, it’s easy to look to Instagram stars and wonder what’s real and what’s fake. Last month, Essena O’Neill, the Australian teenager who racked up more than half…
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Everything She Says Means Everything
Read more: Everything She Says Means EverythingCalling all feminist activists, nudists, Cleveland-based Democrats, and people overdue for a laundry day. Photographer Spencer Tunick is looking for 100 bold women to pose nude for a Cleveland-based photo shoot on July 17, 2016. Also — you’ll be baring…
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In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude
Read more: In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the NudeFor centuries, (male) artists have perpetuated a relatively consistent image of the female nude: She’s soft, willowy, and docile. Sensual but not sexually aggressive. Flirtatious but not confrontational. She’s not quite a human but, mediated through the lens of a…
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This App Lets You Request a Stalker For 24 Hours
Read more: This App Lets You Request a Stalker For 24 HoursArtist Lauren McCarthy wants to challenge our obsession with getting followers on social media by letting you request a real-life follower, for one day at a time. How many followers do you have? Thanks to the increasing ubiquity of social…
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Wesleyan Alum Poses As Dominatrix At Fraternity Where She Was Raped
Read more: Wesleyan Alum Poses As Dominatrix At Fraternity Where She Was RapedToday’s Bad Bitch Award goes to Karmenife Paulino, a 22-year-old graduate of Wesleyan University. Raped at a fraternity during her freshman year, she reasserted her sexual agency in a photoshoot entitled “Reclamation,” where she poses as a dominatrix on fraternity…
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This Woman Turned Her Collection of Unsolicited Dick Pics into an Art Show
Read more: This Woman Turned Her Collection of Unsolicited Dick Pics into an Art ShowAh, the unsolicited dick pic. Technology has made it all too tempting for men’s penises to pop up on a woman’s phone while she’s reading on the train or walking home from work. This is a fairly recent invention, because…
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Under the Influence
Read more: Under the InfluenceArtist Bryan Lewis Saunders took it upon himself to draw a self portrait every time he took a psychoactive substance. These ranged from zoloft to morphine to marijuana and it is an amazing subjective experience to witness. We can almost…
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This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute
Read more: This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute“Girl’s Day” in China was supposed to be a way for boys on college campuses to show the girls how much they care. This year it went too far. Have you heard about “Girl’s Day?” It’s a big holiday for…
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The Occult Activism of 1960s Group WITCH is Still Relevant
Read more: The Occult Activism of 1960s Group WITCH is Still RelevantWhen people think of feminist protests of the 1960s, they most often think of bra burning at the Miss America pageant. This is super lame because bras weren’t even burned at that protest, just discarded into a trash can. It’s…