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women
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The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We upend the art world’s notion of what’s good and what’s right’
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We upend the art world’s notion of what’s good and what’s right’In 1984, a group of women in New York gathered outside the Museum of Modern Art as part of a protest. A group show, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, was showing 165 artists, 152 male artists exhibited…
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#KuToo Movement: protest against mandatory high heels at work in Japan
Read more: #KuToo Movement: protest against mandatory high heels at work in JapanYumi Ishikawa, a Japanese actress, freelance writer, and part-time funeral parlor worker, started the #KuToo Movement because she feels it’s unfair she has to wear heels at work. She also feels that being required to wear heels is rooted in…
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Reclaiming the Domestic
Read more: Reclaiming the DomesticThe work of South African artist Mary Sibande tells the tale of her alter-ego Sophie, a domestic worker who finds refuge in dreams where she emancipates herself from the ghoulish realism of an ordinary existence, cleaning other people’s homes. Exploring…
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Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rights
Read more: Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rightsHow did men in miniskirts become a protest meme on social media? Turkish men aren’t known for wearing skirts. But hundreds turned out in large numbers in Istanbul to protest about violence against women in Turkey on 21 February. They…
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Women In War – Oropéndola
Read more: Women In War – OropéndolaWomen in war is a theater play written by Colombian authors Carlota Llano and Fernando Montes. It is based on 4 stories of women that participated and were victims of Colombian armed Conflict: Dora Margarita, a guerrilla women from the…
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Abused Goddesses
Read more: Abused GoddessesThe bruised and beaten faces of these beautiful Hindu goddesses have an important point to make — that despite the reverence for women that is a part of Hinduism, India’s most populous religion, the country has become extremely unsafe for…
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#YesAllWomen
Read more: #YesAllWomenIn May, the horrific mass shooting in Isla Vista, CA, triggered national conversations about violent misogyny. After some Twitter users began using the hashtag #NotAllMen to defensively derail the conversation, the hugely popular hashtag #YesAllWomen emerged, getting tweeted over 1…
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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…
Read more: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…Text taken from Creative Time website: To say there is a riddle lurking in the sugar-coated monument conceived by Kara Walker may be an understatement as big as the sculpture itself. A massive sphinx-turned-mammy, she stands mute, looking outward, acting…
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Can Graffiti Remake Egypt?
Read more: Can Graffiti Remake Egypt?Last week, a dozen of female artists turned the walls of a downtown parking lot in Cairo into a street art gallery. Colourful group murals carrying personal stories and spreading messages to increase women’s visibility, and positively affect public consciousness.…
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
Read more: Shake Girl, The Graphic NovelShake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project — a group dedicated to acheiving this…