Sentences with phrase «of feminist activists»

It was penned the Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist activists formed three years earlier, who shielded their identity under masks and pseudonyms of deceased female artists like Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz (both of whom are still active in the group today).

All activities are part of the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, a sprawling multimedia tribute to the group's longevity and a passing of the torch to the next wave of feminist activists.

The protest had a theatrical flair, complete with a printed program, a bugler and Frida Kahlo, a pseudonymous founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, a group of feminist activists.

Not exact matches

s co-founder along with Dr. Susana Morris of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a feminist of color scholar - activist group that runs a highly successful blog.

We take no particular pleasure in engaging the militant feminists and homosexual activists, the Nietzschean deconstructionists and relativists, the enemies of traditional morality and religious faith; indeed, the ongoing conflict with our various utopians and Gnostics is dirty business from which no one emerges with entirely clean hands or uncoarsened sensibilities.

For example, white feminists (of which I am one) are often tempted to use the work of African - American writers, activists and theologians to illustrate their own points.

One could argue that such portraits are part and parcel of their hilariously hyperbolic writing style, but such obviously overdrawn characterizations reinforce the reader's feeling that the authors» only definition of a good mother is that of a mordant political activist with their particular brand of feminist conscience,

Media feminist activists are using allegations of personal misbehavior that are over ten years old and selective personal anecdotes to discredit the ability and judgment of a high profile professional jurist.

Sundry feminists and gay activists claim to be the continuation of the movement, as do, with greater justice, pro-lifers.

Sundry feminists and gay activists claim to be the continuation of the movement, as do,...

That concept was the brainchild of advertising executives, not feminist activists.»

Sadly, the majority of feminist thinkers and activists may turn a blind eye to the inconsistencies that define the transgender movement.

To see that happen, all of us not just feminist activists or the usual players are going to have to play our part.

http://responsibleeatingandliving.com/shows/Ask-A-Vegan-April-1-2012.mp3Podcast: Play in new window DownloadCaryn discusses her brief meeting and conversations with vegan, ecofeminist, activist, scholar and founder of Feminists for Animal Rights, Marti Kheel before she passed in November 2011.

I'll be introducing you to the voices of other mom - artists, activists, feminists, and makers.

She was included in a MORE Magazine feature about new feminists to pay attention to, Curve Magazine named her Best Activist / Newcomer in 2010 and Latina Magazine profiled her as part of their 15th anniversary «Future 15.»

Or was she wrong and did she hurt herself in the eyes of women legislators and feminist activists?

As an example, she pointed to the success online feminist activists had in raising awareness of the misogynist aspect of a mass shooting in Santa Barbara earlier this year and awareness about the racial violence and tensions in Ferguson, Missouri.»

NOW, the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States, was founded in 1966 and has hundreds of chapters in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. NOW - NY and NOW - NYC, the New York City chapter, have advocated on a number of issues affecting girls and women, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic violence and child marriage — issues it has worked on with Cuomo and other elected officials.

Not just as a spouse who knows him intimately, but as a deft political mind in her own right: a feminist activist who understands grass - roots organizing, a liberal champion of the working class and an experienced author who has written speeches for leading New York officials.

The coalition of prisoners» rights activists, feminists, and gays, in a September 6 early evening vigil, charged the governor has granted no petitions for -LSB-...]

Sumell, an activist who once presented anti-abortion President Bush a quilt woven from hundreds of pro-choice feminist's pubic hair, was a grad student in the Art Department at Stanford when she took an interest in Herman.

Julie Taymor will helm a coming - of - age biopic about feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, based on Steinem's bestselling memoir My Life on the Road, adapted for the screen by Tony Award - and Pulitzer Prize - nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl.

Listen to the endless line of drool leaking from the hole of a self - described French - Canadian «Mother and feminist activist!»

Based on Eric Danville's bio «The Complete Linda Lovelace,» the film follows Linda Boreman's rise to fame as iconic porn star Linda Lovelace of 1972's DEEP THROAT, and her subsequent transformation into feminist, anti-porn activist Linda Marchiano.

With all its buzz about being a «feminist film» and the ridiculous drama brought about by a wannabe men's activist espousing the film's brain - washing agenda, sounds like some of those music - loving Pitch Perfect fans may just mosy over to Mad Max next weekend for another dose of kick - ass women.

As an activist group supporting feminist progress in the film industry, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ.org), a nonprofit professional association of women who write about film and the movie industry, keeps tabs on films made by and about women throughout each year, conducting what might be considered a very informal study of feminist film production.

It might have been compelling to see the actress portray Lovelace's descent into drug abuse or her contentious career as an anti-porn activist, but it seems the ambivalence of that period — which saw Lovelace publicly repudiate her past stardom and then charge her celebrity - feminist supporters with their own form of exploitation — would exceed this disappointingly slight film's very slender parameters.

Signed up for one of two «competing» Gloria Steinem projects in the works (the other being Julie Taymor's My Life on the Road), this March she'll work begin filming on An Uncivil War (Carey Mulligan will topline the pic around a feminist activist and journalist Steinem, lawyer and activist Florynce Kennedy, and others to ratify the ERA, while conservative organizer Phyllis Schlafly advocates against it.

Earlier this week a poll of more than 1,600 teachers by the National Education Union and UK Feminista — a prominent feminist activist group — revealed that 27 per cent of secondary teachers would not feel confident tackling a sexist incident at school.

A poll of more than 1,600 teachers by the National Education Union (NEU) and UK Feminista — a prominent feminist activist group — found that 27 per cent of secondary teachers would not feel confident tackling a sexist incident at school.

Our final round judges are a carefully selected panel with a mix of published writers, feminist scholars, and activists.

Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.

Alice was a woman ahead of her time, an activist, feminist, and a supporter of Native American rights.

Then the Guerrilla Girls, the feminist art - activist group, went around town putting up posters of OJ Simpson and Andre with «Wanted» written across the top.

The third wave of feminists that emerged in the»90s allied with queer theorists and activists of color — and dismissed the previous generation's feminism as too straight, white and privileged.

From protest at the lack of inclusion of women artists in galleries and museums, to resuscitation of the degraded languages of decorative and craft - based arts, the first phase of feminist art making was activist, passionate, and especially concerned with altering art history.

A known feminist and anti-war activist, Spero decided to make women the sole subject of her artwork from 1976 on.

2 Leigh's conflation of divergent sensibilities, histories, and artistic impulses fits into a respected lineage of artists who are oriented toward feminist and civil rights activist discourses, such as Faith Ringgold, Barbara Chase - Riboud, Noah Purifoy, and Miriam Schapiro, among others.

Smith, whose work often explores feminist themes through depictions of the female body and women from history and mythology, is drawn to the complexity of Bakerʼs career as a performer / showgirl, and a social and political activist.

Today for our Summer Session topic of celebrity, we bring you an interview from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with the feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls.

As an artist, feminist and lifelong activist, Nancy Spero researched the obscured histories of women to create a figurative cast of characters, a kind of repertory company, culled from many eras and cultures.

In Guirguis» large - scale paintings on paper, the Egyptian - born artist makes reference to the mashrabiya screens at Huda Shaarawi's residence and in the windows of the Cairo train station where the early - 20th - century feminist activist removed her veil in defiance of the mandate that men dictate the terms of her body.

We Wanted a Revolution shines a light on the artist - activists of color working outside of the dominant white, middle - class feminist narrative.

During the opening of the current exhibition, Corpografías en Resistencía, a small group — mostly made up of queer and feminist activists — gathered in -LSB-.....]

This concept finds its roots in the writing of bell hooks, a visionary feminist activist and author, who speaks to the transformative potential of shifting one's focus to consider the margin and center not as disparate parts, but as making up a whole body.

Complementing the residency and exhibitions will be panel discussions intended for the general public, university students, and faculty in which the exhibiting artists, art historians, and activists will explore topics such as attitudes toward feminist art among women of different generations; the role of artists as agents of change; and the representation of women in the contemporary art world.

Statues of the Harry Potter - star - cum - feminist - activist were seen worldwide, the work of post-internet art's fastest rising star, Scherer.

The Guerrilla Girls, a group of anonymous, feminist activists was founded in 1985.

In her keynote presentation at Berlin's transmediale last weekend, Lisa Nakamura noted how many speakers had quoted poet, feminist and civil rights activist, Audre Lorde, during the first three days of the festival.