#feminist artists
The instructions of the brief said to consider, absorb and analyse world events or news over the coming weeks, and pick stories that interested you – ‘what would you like to comment on? raise awareness about? improve? Excite yourself and others – what do you want to announce to an audience?’ The thing I am most interested in and want to comment on and raise awareness about is feminism, in particular, the importance of intersectional feminism, and why gender roles are harmful.
I started by browsing the internet and reading a variety of articles on what was currently happening in the world in regards to feminism. Here are the links to some of the articles I looked at:
Women share their experiences of rejecting men’s sexual advances: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/women-share-the-consequences-of-rejecting-sexual-advances-on-blog-a6709241.html
Germaine Greer – Transgender women are not women: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34625512
5 Young revolutionary feminists to listen to: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/27149/1/the-five-young-revolutionary-feminists-you-need-to-listen-to
Mars’ use of the word hoe: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25862/1/the-new-art-movement-empowering-poc
Ayesha Siddiqi: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/dec/09/ayesha-siddiqi-we-need-to-stop-waiting-for-permission
Tyler Ford on gender: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/my-life-without-gender-strangers-are-desperate-to-know-what-genitalia-i-have
Happy Hippie Foundation: http://www.happyhippies.org/
Fannie Sosa:https://vimeo.com/123000371
https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/nomadic-activist-fannie-sosa-spreads-the-word-and-teaches-twerk
http://www.aqnb.com/2015/04/21/an-interview-with-fannie-sosa/
Gender and advertisements: https://www.genderspectrum.org/blog/gender-and-advertisements/
I also looked at this article by Emily Hill called ’Feminism is over, the battle is won. Time to move on.’http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/the-decline-of-feminism/
I felt most angered and affected by this article. This is a relatively young, supposedly intelligent, journalist, who is speaking so ignorantly, saying that we don’t need feminism anymore, because she personally doesn’t feel affected by issues surrounding feminism, she claims that feminists are ’draining the fun from life’. She said ’what started as a genuine crusade against genuine prejudice has become a form of pointless attention seeking.’ which is ridiculous because there is still so much genuine prejudice and huge amounts of inequality.
