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Anastasia Alexandrin’s Powerful Female Forms

Marc Londo — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:39:30 +0000

Anastasia Alexandrin’s style is unmistakable. Interlacing lines of charcoal and gritty overlays infuse her female subjects with an ethereal quality. Her masterful integration of line and tone within the framework of her narratives evokes nostalgia and introspection. But though her work reflects another time and place, nonconformist message speaks to a uniquely modern view of [&hellip

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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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Review of Ursula Brookbank’s SHE WORLD

Alison Kjeldgaard — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:05:06 +0000

On the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade and the dawn of the 1970s feminist art movement, photographer Ursula Brookbank’s new exhibit, SHE WORLD, opens at an interesting moment in history. On display at the Krowswork Gallery in Oakland, California, SHE WORLD investigates the private histories of real women through objects that Brookbank has collected [&hellip

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Woman of the Week: Edith Zimmerman

Taylor Majewski — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:40:21 +0000

In an uncertain global economy in which salaried employment and benefits are hard to come by, millennials have had to get creative with their careers, turning to independent web-based projects and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr to invent their own jobs. Writer Edith Zimmerman is no exception to that movement. Along with [&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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Gender Benders with Comic Artist Chloe Dalquist

Julie Davis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:07:31 +0000

“The concept of Jamie’s character came from my own mental state in my late teens/early twenties,” explained cartoonist Chloe Dalquist, describing the inspiration for her comic Jamie the Trickster. “I was going through a phase where I wanted to be male, but didn’t identify as trans because I knew that if I actually did go [&hellip

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Identity and Sex in Man Up! No Balls About It Exhibit

Angela Son — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:50:25 +0000

The exhibition was put together by the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA), a national organization that creates community through art, education and social activism. Suzy Lake – a native of Detroit and the first female artist to use performance, video and photographic work to explore gender – acted as the jury for the exhibition, hand-picking [&hellip

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