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LADYPOINTS filmmakers inspire a cultural revolution

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:17:02 +0000

Sometimes the simple act of stating a dream can spark a revolution. After a high school girl casually mentioned to filmmaker Jamie Li that she wanted to be a photographer, an idea began to form: how could Li give women access to resources and information to pursue their passions? Inspired herself by Amy Poehler’s webseries Smart [&hellip

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Feature: Laydeez do Comics

Julie Davis — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:12:20 +0000

Laydeez do Comics is like a combination between a book club and a series of TED talks. During meetings held after hours at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, the group gathers in a gallery to enjoy tea and cookies while being introduced to female comic artists and their works. Originally a UK-based group, Laydeez do [&hellip

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Review: Women of the Underground: Art by Zora von Burden

Julie Davis — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:41:34 +0000

A collection of in-depth interviews, Women of the Underground: Art takes an inside look at the work of 24 female artists who are “cultural architects, influencing generations with art that is innovative, pushes boundaries, and dares to question, investigate and redefine society in the spirit of the underground.” Perhaps because of these general parameters, Women [&hellip

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Feature: Opera on Tap

Setsu Uzume — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:11 +0000

Opera on Tap, a nonprofit dedicated to making opera as accessible and ubiquitous as pop music, was established in San Francisco in the Spring of 2011 with its first performance on a balmy night in August. The organization was originally born in New York, where co-manager Indre Viskontas was first cast in the nascent project. [&hellip

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Review: The 40th Anniversary of Wimmen’s Comix

Julie Davis — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:00:11 +0000

To read the story behind the groundbreaking comics anthology Wimmen’s Comix is to be reminded of feminism’s past, and how much has (or in some cases, hasn’t) changed. In the early 1970s, while Zap and Weirdo kept on truckin’ with their counterculture stories about drugs, violence and the sexual revolution, female artists were feeling shut [&hellip

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Interview: Christine Young of Works by Women SF

Alicia Coombes — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Christine Young, the Theatre Program Coordinator at the University of San Francisco and director who specializes in new play development, has recently headed up the launch of a new website called Works by Women SF. Based on the grassroots feminist movement in New York called 50/50 in 2020, a movement that promotes gender parity in [&hellip

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Interview: Feminist Superheroines with Maureen Burdock

Julie Davis — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:13:44 +0000

German-born artist Maureen Burdock has spent a lifetime using her creativity to combat gender-based violence. Brought to the United States as a child by her mother in an effort to escape domestic violence, Burdock began putting her agony and confusion into artwork by the age of eight. Her work has consistently embraced activist and feminist [&hellip

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Interview with Kimberly Rose Wendt and Eloisa Bravo of Bitchslap!

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:10:33 +0000

Despite the long-running success of many female comedians, the world of stand-up has been traditionally dominated by men, and comedians from Johnny Carson to Adam Corolla have declaimed women for not being funny. However, comedians Eloisa Bravo and Kimberly Rose Wendt know that these naysayers are wrong. After sharing a stage several times and running [&hellip

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The Beauty of Symmetry: a Look at the Symmetry Theatre Company

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:25:00 +0000

When friends and actors Chloe Bronzan and Jessica Powell noticed that their male counterparts consistently scored higher-paying and more frequent acting jobs, they decided to do something about it. In 2010, they created the Symmetry Theatre Company in San Francisco along with Chloe’s husband, Robert Parsons, also an actor, and produced their first play (Show [&hellip

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