Sentences with phrase «sexual identity politics»

A closer probing investigation reveals the underlying terror surrounding race, gender, and sexual identity politics in America.

Reno rightly sees sexual identity politics as central to public debates today.

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The remarkable preference for efficiency we see in the overwhelmingly Democratic student body at Yale Law School also sheds light on today's progressive priorities, which focus on identity politics, especially sexual identity.

Why do we tend to panic or become despondent every time we hear of another story about sexual identity and gender politics?

It also explains the politics of sexual identity.

Her Liz Taylor Series uses Pop Art imagery and assemblage to critique representation and the sexual politics of identity.

The New York gallery's program focuses on artists of the late 20th century whose work explores concepts such as representation, authorship, identity, and sexual politics across a wide - range of media.

Through radical, poetic, ironic and often provocative investigations, female artists were galvanised to use their work as further means of engagement — questioning feminine identities, gender roles and sexual politics through new modes of expression.

Many, fueled by feminism or queer activism, link directly to alternative politics and alternative sexual identities.

This thematic exhibition brings together over 100 works by women artists to explore sexual politics, eroticism, mysticism and identity.

He typically gravitates toward cultural theorists, poets and critics — Stuart Hall's posthumous memoir, «Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands,» about growing up in Jamaica in the 1930s; Fred Moten's «In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition,» on the connections between jazz, sexual identity and radical black politics; Judith Butler's «Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence,» a look at the vulnerability and aggression that followed Sept. 11.

will do a performance that includes several performers and dancers addressing sexual and gender identity and politics.

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

But in the last three decades the body, as a site of gender and sexual politics and as a locus of identity, has been a particularly popular and charged subject.

Scouring pads and latex gloves address themes of domestic servitude, while simultaneously alluding to sexual politics, violence against black bodies and the suffocating prisms of gendered identity.

This exhibition presents a diverse range of multi-disciplinary works, which reveal various aspects of the artists» politics of sexual identity.

As the nation suffered through the throes of the AIDS crisis — with LGBT groups marching on Washington to demand government action — sexual liberation and identity politics became themes of critical importance to artists of the decade.

Can sex be a site for identity politics, after we are imbued with the lore and failure of the sexual «revolution»?»

Much of his work has dealt with gender, sexual identity, human rights, politics, religion and mortality often referencing his family history.

Lina Bertucci is a visual artist working in photography, video, and film known for her provocative portraits that investigate identity and sexual politics.

Hyon Gyon addresses cultural identity, sexual politics, grief, catharsis and ecstasy in her highly expressive and often autobiographical body of work.

The New York gallery's program remains focused on artists of the late Twentieth Century whose work explores concepts such as representation, authorship, identity and sexual politics across a wide - range of media.

Through radical, poetic, ironic and often provocative investigations, female artists were galvanized to use their work as further means of engagement — questioning feminine identities, gender roles and sexual politics through new modes of expression.

Bringing together women surrealist painters from the 1930s and women under the influence of surrealism today, Dreamers Awake gets down and dirty with the mystical and the erotic, the spectre of identity and sexual politics.

The New York gallery's program focuses on concepts such as representation, authorship, identity, and sexual politics across a wide - range of media.

It goes without saying the discourse over identity politics has intensified a lot in the past few years, and I think there's some debate over whether or not this intense focus on the gender / race / sexual orientation of artists is «ghettoizing» certain practices.

Art that started to tackle this controversial theme emerged from the bigger cultural spectrum of the 1980's and the questions about AIDS opened significant debates on the politics of identity in relation to one's sexual behavior.

The work of contemporary artists Cindy Sherman, Rashaad Newsome and Radcliffe Bailey coalesce around the politics of feminism and sexual identity, the issues of multiculturalism and social reform, as well as concern for the environment and natural resources.

His work addresses issues of gender, identity, socio - politics, sexual histories, mourning, loss, survival, hope and healing.

Throughout modern history, female artists pushed for social changes by questioning feminist identities, gender roles and sexual politics — now, following the recent and long - overdue appreciation of female artists at museums, Art on the Underground looks to take feminist artistic concerns a step forward by giving their works an entire year of public attention.

Also included are photographic tableaus that reference ancient and contemporary Chinese culture including religion, politics, sexual identity, and the radically changing attitudes towards these societal pillars.