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Since Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAR) was founded, approximately 5,000 people have shared pictures, leaflets, zines and stickers from protests. Photo: Make Peace (t.me/femagainstwar) Cropped. Full photo below 29 March 2022 | Staff | The Moscow Times On Feb. 23, Daria Serenko, a Moscow political activist, was finally released from a fifteen-day jail sentence. Daria had…
Her value is not in her stupendous auction prices, but in her hard-won road to artistic greatness 18 November 2021 | Guardian Editorial | The Guardian A late self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold this week at a New York auction house for $34.9m. That makes her the most expensive Latin American artist ever, eclipsing her husband, Diego Rivera,…
The decision in the world’s second-biggest Roman Catholic country means that courts can no longer prosecute abortion cases. Photo: A woman holds up a banner which reads “My body, I decide” during a protest to celebrate the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) that declared the criminalization of abortion as…
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Previously a niche, expensive product, period knickers are now readily available on the UK high street. Women explain why they are turning their backs on single-use pads and tampons Photo: ‘I feel more confident’ … menstrual underwear by M&S (left) and Modibodi. (Posed by models.) 01 September 2021 | Sirin Kale | The Guardian t was December…
Photo: Gertrude Stein, 1934. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten An interesting, if somewhat overly critical look at Gertrude Stein and her The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. Personally I have never understood why she is so misunderstood, or revered by modern-day feminists. 27 July 2021 | Cath Pound | BBC Culture Gertrude Stein, who died 75…
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(Image credit: Alamy) Since Sylvia Plath died in 1963, she’s been turned into a crudely tragic symbol. As she inspires more biographies, will we ever get closer to the ‘real’ Plath. 21 July 2021 | Lillian Crawford | BBC Culture When a female author dies by suicide, it defines her. From Virginia Woolf to Sarah Kane,…
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Photo: Haunani-Kay Trask in an undated photo. As a professor, poet and activist, she pushed for the recognition of Hawaii’s Indigenous people. “I am not soft, I am not sweet, and I do not want any more tourists in Hawaii,” she said.Credit…Kapulani Landgraf Haunani–Kay Trask was a visionary leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. She decried…
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217 June 2021 | Steve Marble | Los Angeles Times John Sacret Young, a writer and director who gave TV viewers a hellish portrait of warfare and its life-altering consequences in “China Beach” and earned Emmy nominations for his work on “The West Wing,” has died at his home in Brentwood. A skilled and prolific…
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Photo: Boating instructor Marta Canino steers her way through the canals of Venice with her student Sara. Photo: Giacomo Sini Boating has been a pastime for men for hundreds of years in Venice. But during the pandemic, the lagoon surrounding the city has grown quiet. Many women who might have been discouraged in the past…
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Photo: Over time, language has evolved to recognise women as sexually non-binary (Credit: Getty Images) 15th June 2021 | Jessica Klein | BBC The way we think about sexuality is changing. Where there was once a single, well-known rainbow pride flag, today, a wide array of colourful flags fly to showcase the diversity of orientations….
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Photo: The COVID-19 crisis turned out to be an opportunity for Saudi avant-garde makeup artist Salwa Koshak. (Supplied) 05 June 2021 | DEEMA AL-KHUDAIR | Arab News JEDDAH: The faces in the photographs are familiar and the poses instantly recognizable: The iconic fashions of Marilyn Monroe. The sophisticated style of Audrey Hepburn. The chessboard chic…
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Photo: A detail from Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus Triptych “Marilyn Monroe” (1992-93) © 2021 Scharlatt Family, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Permission Nearly 120 works by the pioneering feminist artist who used her body as a central focus of her work are on view in…
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