We want characters, especially women protagonists, who add up to more than a trait and a motive. (brainygamer.com)
Her own work challenges these boundaries, as seen in her solo show Revenge, featuring consecutive paintings of black women protagonists and memorials to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, at Rochdale Art Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London, in 1992, which contested the pictorial narratives so frequently repeated in art history. (eyonart.org)
As Indian critic Monty Majeed discovered while interviewing girls at Berlinale 2015, this year's festival's expanded programming of films with young women protagonists projected horizon - broadening images that were as transformative and enlightening as they were disturbing. (awfj.org)