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Through the Looking Glass: How Women are Painted b...
Posted by Lily Pickart | Aug 16, 2021 | Meaning | 0
The Pop Feminist Poetry of Saâda Bonaire
Posted by Christina Keyser | Jul 24, 2021 | Identity | 0
The Neo-Femme Fatale, Cringe Comedy, and Imperfect Feminism
by Christina Keyser | Aug 31, 2021 | Meaning | 2
In foregrounding women’s qualities of imperfection and their open struggle with modern gender pressures, figures like Fleabag push back against the feminist expectation for women to be resilient above all else. Through this imperfect antiheroine protagonist, Fleabag resists television’s archetypal ‘strong and independent woman’ and depicts a feminism that although is less than ideal, is real.
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glass: How Women are Painted by Men
by Lily Pickart | Aug 16, 2021 | Meaning | 0
We as a patriarchal society are obsessed with pinning a woman’s worth to a singular aspect of her identity, usually centered around the notion of sexuality.
Read MoreThe Pop Feminist Poetry of Saâda Bonaire
by Christina Keyser | Jul 24, 2021 | Identity | 0
“Well, we don’t understand ourselves as feminists and we’re not militant either. We only tell stories that happen to us every day. The songs are about things that happen to everyone and we want to at the most convey a message to the women who read these texts, about our difficulties and how we cope with them.” — Saada Bonaire
Read MoreMAI: Feminism & Visual Culture
by Christina Keyser | Jul 21, 2021 | Read | 0
A non-hierarchical journal open to multivalent feminist expression, research & critique of visual culture.
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