November 2010
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feminist art collectives in ny: an anthropological... →
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funny since 1974
(via johncagecale)
squeamish/sexist gallery owners who claim “i am not a prude, but…” and an amazing backstory make lynda benglis’s infamous artforum centerfold—a pitch-perfect commentary on what it took a woman to make it in the art world—even funnier. also sort of amused that she works in latex. love her.
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re-live through this for the first time
“But I take the nihilist spirit of the text and turn it into a styling structure of feminine dissonance: stiff jeans, simpering t-shirts, limpid flannel; careful jewelry and sloppy make-up; big fat hair, small posture; clean skin, filthy mind. I used to think all of these things represented me. But the layers of the years, nay, layers ofdecades, have fused these things to my skin and I, me...
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this is what we do at feminist collective meetings
take pictures! for jeannes clothing line! we also drink.
whateverjeanne:
This ad campaign features real life radical feminists who kill joy all the time.
Lydia is a performance artist & scholar (oh and you might have see her naked at Marina Abramovic’s MoMA retrospective ‘The Artist Is Absent’). She’s modeling the classic turtleneck.
Alex, anarcha-feminist and my gay husband, models...
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(ichmuss: pasithee: tobia)
“Let’s face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one’s best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by...
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FEMINIST KILLJOY TURTLENECK ARMY
whateverjeanne:
Let us take seriously the figure of the feminist killjoy. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced or negated under public signs of joy? - Sara Ahmed
I am commandeering a feminist killjoy turtleneck army. Please enlist! Turtlenecks and other killjoy looks available here. New...
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#ihadanabortion
whateverjeanne:
JV: i would totally tweet #ihadanabortion EM: i know. i do a lot of abortion fund stuff so i keep seeing it all over my feed and i want so bad to help make it trend! but, unforch, no abortion to tweet. JV: i know, right? stupid non-reproductive queer sex is fucking up my abortion. EM: i know. i thought abt saying “i wish #ihadanabortion so i could add to the hashtag!”...
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ny art book fair →
november 5-7
