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Rethinking ‘Reborn’: Reactions to the shocking subculture of adult doll collecting
TweetI’d never heard of the Reborn subculture before, which was detailed in a recent photoessay in the New York Times. Women who are part of this culture (movement? hobby?) — aficcionados are mostly white, conservative, Christian, and antiabortion women — make and collect eerily lifelike dolls. They purchase their dolls from “nurseries” and host baby [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
TweetYears before Adrienne Rich would write in Of Woman Born that ” [women] need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genuis of her own body,” 19th century Western women began exploring skin modification through the art of tattoo. Margot Mifflin’s recently reissued Bodies of Subversion is more than just a [...]
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Sojourner Truth: “A woman in control of her image”
Tweet Holiday movie-viewing season probably means that you undoubtedly will catch one of the most talked about films of the year, Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” I saw the movie a few weeks back and it’s pretty grand. Yet, I had a healthy amount of skepticism going in, because it is a Spielberg jawn, which would mean there [...]
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Quick hit: Donna Ferrato’s photo crusade against domestic violence
Tweet The above image is iconic. Nan Goldin released this self portrait as part of her photo monograph, ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency‘ in 1986. Goldin’s work was one of self inquiry, groundbreaking in its visceral analysis of intimacy and relationships from her generation. It launched her career as an artist, it also, over time [...]
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Chilling photo essay documents a night of domestic violence