Projects tagged "Feminism"

Herself
Practitioner:
Caitlin Stasey, Hannah Terry-Whyte, Keenan MacWilliam
Date:
May 13 2015
Herself.com may not be safe for work, but it FEELS safe for work. That's how intimate and gorgeous the shots of these naked women are, they transcend, for some, the feeling that you are looking at the taboo. You are simply looking at a person, in a quality of artistry that you might not be used to seeing on what are deemed "regular people".
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Sad Girl Theory
Practitioner:
Audrey Wollen
Date:
May 1 2016
During 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 a million Instagram followers, quit Instagram after claiming that social media is “not real life.”
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Texas Student's Nude Performance Art Project Goes Viral
Practitioner:
Monika Rostvold
Date:
Apr 28 2015
Monika Rostvold, an art student at Texas State University, sparked a frenzy both on campus and online Monday when she sat on the steps of her university's library wearing nothing but a blindfold, a nude-colored thong, and pasties (see Naked Youths Take to Mexican Streets to Protest Student Killings Documented by Edgar Olguin).
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The Dinner Party
Practitioner:
Judy Chicago
Date:
Jan 1 1974
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized. The Dinner Party comprises a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of thirty-nine place settings, each commemorating an important woman from history.
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#ShoutingBack with Coasters
Practitioner:
Lila Urda, Ranim Hadid, Madeleine Dalkie, Diana Al-Mahmood
Date:
Apr 18 2014
The group of NYU graduate students went to bars in Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with coasters that said "#shoutingback" on them, as well as a slogan. Three different coasters with three different slogans were put on bars and tables in local watering holes. The slogans included "She ordered a drink.
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Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)
Practitioner:
Eléonore Pourriat
Date:
Feb 1 2014
On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women... Eléonore Pourriat's short film imagines how a man might experience a sexual assault in a matriarchal society.
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#OpSteubenville
Practitioner:
KYAnonymous, KnightSec
Date:
Dec 12 2012
During the Steubenville, Ohio rape case in 2012, members of Anonymous uncovered and promised to release names of unindicted participants in the rape of a teenager by high school athletes.
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AmplifyHER and AnimateHER
Practitioner:
Ten One Films
Date:
Sep 1 2015
Amplify HER is a visually dynamic, character driven feature documentary that offers intimate access into the lives of numerous emerging female artists. By combining ecstatic energy and feminine artistry, these talented young women in the global electronic music scene are harbingers for the emerging paradigm.
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This Woman Turned Her Collection of Unsolicited Dick Pics into an Art Show
Practitioner:
Whitney Bell
Date:
Apr 2 2016
Ah, 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 who would've taken their rolls of film to the local drug store to get their dick pics developed?
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An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective
Practitioner:
Yoko Ono
Date:
May 12 2015
An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective by Steff Yotka
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The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in Spain
Practitioner:
Feminist Organizations
Date:
Apr 15 2014
Even though Spain is constitutionally defined as a non-confessional nation, the Catholic Church still holds great power. For example, the Catholic Church is exempt from paying certain taxes, and can reclaim certain buildings as their property. This often creates frictions and conflicts with the activist groups and organizations that would prefer a more secular political environment.
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Snake in the Grass
Practitioner:
Caitlin Rose Sweet
Date:
May 1 2016
“Art is so often only experienced through looking,” artist Caitlin Rose Sweet explained to The Huffington Post. “It’s a short pathway from the eyes to the brain. I want the whole body involved.”
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The Monument Quilt
Practitioner:
Force
Date:
Mar 1 2014
The Monument Quilt: a public healing space by and for survivors of rape and abuse.
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Building Images
Practitioner:
Isabelle Wenzel
Date:
Feb 6 2010
Isabelle Wenzel's series of photographs entitled 'Building Images' is a striking view on the idea of the office/ workplace. Not only do her images ironically translate the uncomfortable positions office workers endure sitting in a single position for 8 hours a day, but she also takes on a feminist approach by focusing on feminine models in her photographs that center upon the contorted body and office fashion worn.
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Slashing the Rokeby Venus
Practitioner:
Mary Raleigh Richardson, WSPU
Date:
Mar 10 1914
On March 10, 1914, Mary Richardson slashed Velasquez's "Rokeby Venus" with a small axe during public hours at the National Gallery in London. A militant suffragette protesting the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in prison (and the Cat and Mouse Act which released the starving women only until they were slightly healthier only to imprison them again), Richardson released this statement after her arrest:
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Sunaura Taylor
Practitioner:
Sunaura Taylor
Date:
May 26 2015
Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor's artworks have been exhibited at venues across the country, including the CUE Art Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution and the Berkeley Art Museum.
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Invisible Women - A World Designed for Men
Practitioner:
Caroline Criado Perez
Date:
Mar 7 2019
The problem with feminism is that it’s just too familiar. The attention of a jaded public and neophiliac media may have been aroused by #MeToo, with its connotations of youth, sex and celebrity, but for the most part it has drifted recently towards other forms of prejudice, such as transphobia. Unfortunately for women, though, the hoary old problems of discrimination, violence and unpaid labour are still very much with us.
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Write(H)ers: Duke University Equips Feminist Activists
Practitioner:
Duke Women's Center Director Ada Gregory and Write(H)ers
Date:
Feb 2 2013
A new media activism program at Duke University was started this year with the aim of helping young womeen excel in blogging about gender issues. The feminist-oriented program is called Write(H)ers and was created by Duke senior, Samantha Lachman and Women's Center Director Ada Gregory. The 23 women involved in the program will meet professional journalists at workshops centered around blogging and gender issues on campus and abroad.
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Real Women
Practitioner:
Dove
Date:
Apr 17 2004
The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is a worldwide marketing/public relations campaign launched in 2004 that includes advertisements, video, workshops, sleepover events and the publication of a book and the production of a play. The principle behind the campaign is to celebrate the natural physical variation embodied by all women and inspire them to have the confidence to be comfortable with themselves.
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The Vulvatron
Practitioner:
The Vulvatron
Date:
May 13 2015
The Vulvatron was created specifically for Burning Man 2014. A multi-sensory experience, the Vulvatron attempts to communicate to those whom interact with it a distinctly feminine mystery. What is woman? In a world that has politicized, exoticized, sexualized, objectified, made their stake in women, what remains? Creating a gigantic object inspired by female anatomy in a world surrounded by phallic objects is a medicine story in itself.
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In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
May 1 2016
For 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 camera and the eyes of a man, an object of desire in the flesh.
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French Feminist Collective Bearded Stand-ins
Practitioner:
Le Barbe
Date:
Apr 16 2013
Founded in 2008, the French Feminist Collective, La Barbe, targets inequities of female representation in media and cultural/governmental institutions. La Barbe, meaning "beard" in French, is also an old colloquial expression for "enough is enough!". Known as barbues, the female members are all ages. Any woman is welcome to join.
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Camp Mossandsticks
Practitioner:
Camp Mossandsticks, Alex Tsocanos
Date:
Nov 6 2012
Camp Mossandsticks, named after moss and sticks--two of the most rudimentary tools with which one can spark fire--is a site for young women and girls to become resourceful, defiant, and self-sufficient revolutionaries of today. Started on November 6, 2012, the camp hosts workshops to spark the attendees’ inner political flames, challenging them to confront disenfranchisement created by the status quo and to take matters into their own hands.
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#ShoutingBack with Business Cards
Practitioner:
Lila Urda, Ranim Hadid, Madeleine Dalkie, Diana Al-Mahmood
Date:
Apr 18 2014
The group of students from NYU took to the streets of Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with business cards that said "#shoutingback" on one side, and "Real men don't catcall" on the other side, the group waited for men to yell at the women while they walked down the street.
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#DearMe
Practitioner:
YouTube, YouTube users
Date:
Mar 3 2015
From Variety: YouTube launched a campaign with the hashtag #DearMe — encouraging users to upload “video letters” with advice to their younger selves, aimed at helping girls deal with problems — and within an hour it became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter both in the U.S. and worldwide.
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