Tag: feminism
While plenty of female comedians have helped other women process how fucked up and sexist street harassment is, this new video gives everyone a taste for how awful it feels. The video is by Hollaback, an anti-street harassment initiative that encourages people to document street harassment as its happening, share it on their app, and, […]
Men in the late 1800s were incredibly alarmed by the idea of women on bicycles. The new trend, facilitated by the rise in popularity of bloomers and encouraged as a method of liberation by suffragettes, understandably put them on edge. If they can ride bikes, who knows what else they’re capable of? Enter “bicycle face” […]
Betty Dodson had been teaching workshops on masturbation and holding orgies in her apartment for forty years. Dodson, who wrote the seminal Sex For One in 1973, has re-emerged from retirement to enlighten the “post-Girls generation,” a group she thinks still needs a lot of help when it comes to exploring their own sexuality. Dodson, an NYC […]
Earlier today, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova tweeted: When I hear Lana Del Rey, I feel as if I’m back in the prison camp in the middle of clean up. #associations. Когда я слышу Лану дель рей, я чувствую себя в разгаре генеральной уборки в исправительном лагере. #ассоциации — Надя Толокно (@tolokno) March 7, 2014 Nadya Tolokonnikova […]
“We’re not here to define or decide for Pussy Riot. We are just two people that spent time in jail for participating in a Pussy Riot action,” Nadya Tolokonnikova told the Barclays pressroom, flanked enthusiastically by Amnesty International reps and their celebrity spokespeople du jour, hours before the big show. We didn’t know it yet, […]
This is not what a feminist artist looks like. I am not in a habit of trashing a show before I see it, so I won’t trash the 2-day “EXPLICIT” exhibit at Morgan Avenue Underground in Bushwick this weekend. After reading this Vice profile however, it’s clear that there is an ethical and intellectual fail in […]
UPDATE: ANIMAL talked to Boob Jam creator Jenn Frank about the Boob Jam project, errors in her BBC profile, why video games are fun and the “male gaze” argument is boring. Read it here. Earlier this year, Vanillaware released a gamed called “Dragon’s Crown” featuring a sorceress character with credibility-straining breasts. Kotaku suggested that the game was […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, net artist Emilie Gervais traces the creation of her “Gendered HTML Collection” w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net, even though most of her production is deleted after its “processed” or “mutated into something else.” My sketchbook is my internet connection =^.^= Most of my notes […]
“I am 17 years old and I am a feminist,” British high school student Jinan Younis writes in her Guardian editorial, describing her and her female peers’ experiences with cat calling, rape, emotional abuse, and eating disorders and how it inspired her to create a feminist club at her school. Sadly, those are all well-known issues that […]
In Egypt, a radical street art collective called Women on Walls (WOW) has emerged from the chaos of revolution to publicize the struggles that the country’s female population endures regularly. Since WOW was launched in December 2012 by activists Mia Grondahl and Angie Bagela, it has nearly tripled in size: The group now claims over […]
