Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s Ban
Read more: Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s BanIt all began during Claudia’s final art project at the London College of Communication, where she delved into the issue of “sexual objectification of women,” a topic close to her heart as she navigated her womanhood. Her initial series, “Scenery,”…
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Photographing the hidden – Violence Unseen
Read more: Photographing the hidden – Violence UnseenUK photographer Alicia Bruce collaborated with Zero Tolerance, a Scottish non-profit to end GBV, to produce a new version of the Violence Unseen campaign, launched for the first time in the 1990s and created by Franki Raffles. The new one…
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#MyNameIs
Read more: #MyNameIsFacebook came under fire when its authentic-name policy led to San Francisco drag queen Sister Roma and others being barred from the social network. The policy allows users to report people they believe are using fake names. This caused a…
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Brat Summer: From Charli XCX’s *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker Aesthetic
Read more: Brat Summer: From Charli XCX’s *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker AestheticThe Brat Summer movement can be directly traced back to the release of Charli XCX’s album “Brat” in 2024. Known for her boundary-pushing pop sound and fierce persona, Charli XCX used “Brat” as a platform to explore themes of defiance,…
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Rokudenashiko and Her Man-Boat
Read more: Rokudenashiko and Her Man-BoatMegumi Igarashi—who goes by the name Rokudenashiko, or “good-for-nothing” in Japanese—is known as a “vagina artist” in her native Japan. Among the pieces she’s created are a vagina chandelier, a remote-controlled vagina car, and a 3-D-printed kayak modeled after her…
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Missing Faces for Missing Girls
Read more: Missing Faces for Missing GirlsBorn in Nigeria in 1975, Péju Alatise, is a multimedia artist focusing on the experience of women and girls, particularly in her native country but with resonance across the world. Missing (2014), by Peju Alatise, is a series of panels…
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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Album
Read more: Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ AlbumBeyoncé’s album Renaissance is grounded in black queer ballroom culture. It debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 and had the third highest album debut of 2022. Contradictingly, Beyoncé’s Renaissance features a wide range of music: disco, electro-funk, afrobeat,…
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The Sea of Escape
Read more: The Sea of Escape“I collected 83 images of disappeared women from Chinese social media. I printed them out, cut them, organized them, and made them into a tarot deck called “Missing Persons Notice.’” “This is a very heavy deck. Several times, I opened…
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Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
Read more: Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this…
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Las Restauramoras
Read more: Las RestauramorasSiempre Unidas is a feminist collective in the state of Quintana Roo (Mexico) that works partly through street art. In 2021, in response to the femicide of Victoria Salazar – a refugee from El Salvador who died in police custody…