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Today in the Bronx: New Music Festival Celebrates Latinx Art

Today in the Bronx, The Mi Gente! Music Festival will bring all-women bands and local vendors to the borough for a day of (free!) family fun. Mi Gente! is a community collaboration aimed at highlighting the traditional and contemporary music rhythms of Latin America, particularly in the Bronx, which is home to the majority of New York City’s Latin American residents.

By Suzanna Bobadilla • 9 years ago

The Feministing Five: Kayla E. of Nat Brut

Earlier this month, we were excited to see an infographic that connected well-known feminists with those emerging feminists who inspire them. The creators behind that infographic were literary and arts magazine, Nat. Brut. This week, spoke to Editor-In-Chief Kayla E. to learn more about Nat Brut’s commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in literary arts.

By Suzanna Bobadilla • 10 years ago

The Feministing Five: crystal am nelson

crystal am nelson debuted her most recent exhibit “Dark Desires: The Erotic Lives of Black Women” this Friday at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco. The exhibition brings together art, literature, and historical materials to provide a framework on how black women have created, imagined, and self-represented sexual positivity. crystal am nelson collaborated with around ten artists to join her on this examination of black women’s sexuality, and together they have created an incredible exhibit that shows the myriad ways desire extends from sexuality to political and social spheres.

crystal am nelson is both an artist and a scholar. As “Dark Desires” demonstrates, her work combines intensive archival research, collaborative creativity, and thoughtful intention. The exhibit runs ...

By Suzanna Bobadilla • 10 years ago

Feministing Five: Elisa Kreisinger

Cutting, splicing, and reattaching her way through pop-culture, Elisa Kreisinger is a vibrant artist of the 21st century. Elisa, through her work at Pop Culture Pirate, creates feminist multi-media remixes of popular culture which lucky for us, she shares with the web. For example, she’s created works that reinvent shows like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to create a feminist contestant, have introduced a passion between Mad Men’s Don Draper and Roger Sterling, and (perhaps my personal favorite) documented Peggy Olson’s growth from entry-level to boss.

Elisa’s remixes are smart, pithy, and entertaining, but they also express the potential for pop-culture to centralize more identities and more communities. Additionally, Elisa has become an advocate for ...

By Sesali B. • 10 years ago

New play explores the experiences of black women in construction work

Portland State University Assistant professor Roberta Hunte’s dissertation is the basis for My Walk Has Never Been Average, a play that reveals the stories of black women in construction. Hunte’s unique research includes the profiles of 15 black, female construction workers. One of them is Donna Hammonds, who shared her challenges working in the male-dominated field:

“She recounts one incident where she believed she was welding at 20 amps, but someone snuck around and amped her tool up to 150. ‘Sparks were flying. Fire everywhere. I thought my hair was on fire,’ says Hammond, who also recalls an electrician who avoided the appearance of working with her by making her “walk 10, maybe five paces behind him.” Men were not ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Photo of the Day: The lady motorbike gangs of Morocco

Well, not so much biker gangs as working women commuting around their city, but still pretty cool.

By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

In the Bay Area? Come see Jos’s art show!

You may have noticed that Jos’s byline has been missing from the blog recently. That’s because she’s been hard at work–and we’re so excited that soon we can see the fruits of her labor.

Jos’s mixed media prints are appearing, alongside paintings by Colette Standish, in “Awash in Bodies” at San Francisco’s Center for Sex and Culture. Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid,” Jos’s work features severed and stitched legs and fishtails and explores “moments of variable transformations.” Of her own work, which looks beautiful as well, Standish says, “This is all about sex.” Yes, please!

The opening reception is this Friday and the show runs through January 27th. I can’t make it this weekend, but I’ll be at the artists’ ...

You may have noticed that Jos’s byline has been missing from the blog recently. That’s because she’s been hard at work–and we’re so excited that soon we can see the fruits of her labor.

Jos’s mixed media prints ...

By Syreeta McFadden • 11 years ago

The art of seeing: Wangechi Mutu

The long conversation about women’s bodies and agency during this cray cray election cycle that tried to push society backwards about our bodies got me looking back at the work of Wangechi Mutu. Mutu is one of my favorite contemporary artists. Her collage and mixed media work investigates and challenges colonial narratives and images of women, particularly African women. Mutu appropriates images from fashion magazines to National Geographic to pornography to old medical drawings, reconstructs the female body illustrating how our deeply embedded stereotypes about black female identity live in society. Her images are beautiful and grotesque, satirical and political, alien and mythical. In 2010, MoMa’s curatorial team had this to say about her work:

Mutu has described women as “barometers,” ...