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I NEED FEMINISM BECAUSE these are the majority of comments on Less Than 100′s Facebook page. A traveling art project. This is what we’re working with.
Feminists United Club Member Grace Mann Murdered After Months of Threats of Sexual Assault and Violence
After University of Mary Washington Feminists United Club president Paige McKinsey spoke up at a student senate meeting about the culture of sexual hostility among the university’s fraternities and the university’s unwillingness to do anything about it, the anonymous social media app Yik Yak exploded with insults and threats of physical and sexual violence toward McKinsey and other campus feminists.
After the rugby team was recorded singing a song about raping dead whores, prompting FUC members to report the incident to the school administration, the threats got even worse.
Then, on April 17th, Grace Mann was murdered by her roommate, a former rugby player.
You can literally be murdered for being a feminist.
Omg my god, this is horrifying.
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The BEST episode of Parks and Rec. Shout out to the garden center who flat out refused my job application when I was 17 because they were looking for a dude! I can lift 35 pounds too!
Meet the women who created #BlackLivesMatter
MUST-READ: #BlackLivesMatter: How three friends turned a spontaneous facebook post into a global phenomenon
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. Remember their names.
Start to finish “Miami Love” By controlled-khaos [Check out my store]
Beautiful work.
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This is the header and image yahoo used on their main page on an article about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
They used an innocent picture with his brother and fellow terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev, along with a headline about him crying in court. He’s an adult, but they are using his child pictures.
In this article (which I won’t link to), not once do they call Tsarnaev a terrorist. The words ‘terrorist’, ‘terror’ or ‘murderer’ aren’t used once in the article. Not once. They did talk about him blowing kisses to his relatives and how his relatives testified about him being a warm and loving child, and that he cried while watching The Lion King, and that he had a special sweetness.
Even a terrorist and murderer like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will get better treatment than a Black child who was murdered by the police, like 12 year old Tamir Rice.
The humanity of Tsarnaev is recognized and amplified, despite him committing heinous crimes, inflicting mass terror and bringing a major US city down to its knees by not only bombing a marathon, but by also taking the authorities on a wild, violent, bloody and bullet riddled manhunt that lead to even more death, injury, carjackings, armed robbery and continued mass terror by inflicting fear in the people of Boston and surrounding areas. The city was on lockdown. Survivors will be maimed for life, many having to go on with missing limbs, and others with permanent disfigurement and horrendous scars that zigzag across their battered bodies. They have to live on like that for the rest of their days.
This person who committed these dastardly acts is a “sweet boy” you see. He’s tender and fragile. He shed innocent blood wantonly, but he’s “sweet” and yahoo upholds this lie by using a “sweet” picture of him. They didn’t have to do this, but they made that editorial decision. This does not happen by accident. This is a deliberate course of action. Understand that first.
Tsarnaev, the “sweet boy” blows kisses, cries and loved The Lion King.
I wonder what animated movies Tamir Rice loved. Will he ever get this level of compassion, understanding and humanity that is afforded to a terrorist and murderer, even as a victim of murder by the police at the ripe old age of 12?
Tamir won’t be blowing kisses to anyone. He can’t. This we know. Neither will Aiyana Jones, Mike Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride and the other murder victims who were younger than the now almost 22 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the time of their deaths. Operative words there being murder victims. Victims of murder. That can’t be emphasized enough.
The adult terrorist and murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is infantilized, while 12 year olds like Tamir Rice and teens like Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin are depicted as monsters.
In all this, Black children who are murdered aren’t afforded dignity, humanity or respect, even in death, much less shown a gentler approach and sensitivity in reportage due to their youth. Black youth is seldom recognized. Murderer, officer Darren Wilson even described Mike Brown as an unstoppable, raging beast that not only charged him, but was also somehow impervious to his bullets, until he shot him in the head at close range. Wilson said Brown looked like a demon.
The Black child is a threat that needs to be put down, while the adult Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is a terrorist and murderer is humanized and infantilized.
This is so weird considering the heavy usage of “terrorist” and other racialized terms when he was first deemed a suspect.
In Conversation with Photographer Nakeya Brown
Photo courtesy of the artist
Nakeya Brown ( nakeyab) is a photographer on the rise. Currently pursuing an MFA at George Washington University, her work addresses the complexities of Black female identity with a specific focus on hair politics. Her photography - both still life and portraiture - is deliberately rooted in a feminist praxis, blending soft color palettes with distinct markers of Black hair care. On the occasion of the opening of her solo show, In Private Moments, co-editor Jessica Lynne talked with Nakeya via Google Hangouts about her writing, rituals, and community.
Read the full interview here.
So honored to be interviewed by Jessica Lynne a Brooklyn based writer and independent curator. She received her BA in Africana Studies from NYU in 2010. She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writer’s Seminar , Callaloo and The Center for Book Arts. Her work in arts administration has taken her to Chicago, Paris and Ghana amongst other places! She’s also a dear friend and avid supporter of women artists. Check out our interview and other critical writings by the Arts.Black team: http://www.arts.black.com
Whoever declared guitar-rock dead way back when forgot to tell Sleater-Kinney.
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Saint Meryl is funding a screenwriter development program for women over 40.
“In television, the landscape has been filled with shows like New Girl and The Mindy Project and 30 Rock and Parks and Rec. They are all driven by funny female leads and there have always been television shows with funny female leads… But in movies, I’ll read scripts a lot of the time where, unfortunately, the lady parts are—the lady parts!” She yelps, interrupting her thought with uncontrollable laughter and slapping her hand on the table. “The roles for women,” she continues after composing herself, “feel like props. And it’s bad, but not all of the time. I just read a script yesterday that has two funny men and two funny women—even Steven. Or…what’s a female name? Even…Stephanie. But I still get plenty of scripts where women are boring people who keep the guys from having their fun.” — Ellie Kemper in BUST
TIME magazine has named Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian to the 2015 TIME 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
“I appreciate the honor of being included in the TIME 100. It’s gratifying to see Feminist Frequency’s educational media criticism work recognized in this way,” Sarkeesian said of the distinction. “I’m encouraged that our video series on the portrayal of women in video games is starting to have a tangible impact on the gaming industry at large. This honor also highlights the importance of cultural and media criticism in promoting gender equity.”
Feminist Frequency is a not-for-profit, educational organization providing comprehensive analyses of modern media from a critical perspective on societal issues such as race, gender, and sexuality. Creating publicly available and ad-free videos, Feminist Frequency encourages viewers to critically engage with mass media and provides resources for media makers to improve their works of fiction. For more information visit feministfrequency.com.
The full list and related tributes appear in the April 27 issue of TIME, available on newsstands and tablets on Friday, April 17, and now at time.com/time100.
For high resolution photos of Anita Sarkeesian see: https://www.flickr.com/photos/femfreq
The Whitney Museum‘s new building will open to the public on May 1, and its inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See, promises “fresh perspectives on the Whitney’s collection and reflects upon art in the United States” with more than 600 works by 406 artists. We took a look at the cultural and gender breakdowns of all the participating artists to assess just how fresh these perspectives really are.
Breaking Down the Demographics of the New Whitney Museum’s Inaugural Exhibition
What would music festival posters look like if they included only the bands featuring female musicians?
The people at Pixable photoshopped all the male-only bands off these posters and it’s a stark difference. Thanks to She Shreds for sharing this!
So which music festivals ARE good at booking lots of women-fronted bands? We profiled a bunch right here.
“Lighten Up” by Ronald Wimberly
Beautifuly written- and drawn.
okay I feel like I'm the only person who knows that Mulan was a real person and not talked about enough
Her story goes mostly how the Disney version went, except she didn’t go to war as a quest for self-discovery or because she felt as though she couldn’t make her parents proud. The sole and only reason she disguised herself as a young man was to take her Father’s place in the war.
So when she told her parents that she wanted to this, they were like wtf no you’re a girl and it’s chaotic out there. And you know what she did? She put on male clothes and challenged her own Father to a duel. Her dad was like ‘who the hell are you’ but accepted. When Mulan won and revealed herself as his daughter, he was like wOAH okay you can go. Basically she made sure to get her parent’s consent before going, so not only are her parents awesome, she was decent enough to not leave them hanging for 12 years.
Yes, she was at war for 12 years, but she not in fact meet a handsome general. Instead she BECAME a general. Eventually the war was won, and the Emperor was so impressed by her he wanted to wed the Princess to her. It was only then that she revealed she was in fact a woman. Then she accepted the rewards and went right back home to her normal life.
There is now even a crater on Venus named after her.
The fact that a man tweeted what is captured below to Janelle Monáe once again reveals how some men really do not listen to women.
Many men, in general, cannot conceive of women existing for a purpose that is not male consumption, and in the case of Janelle Monáe, many Black men,...