In my past life as an undergraduate at Amherst College, I had an epiphany during my junior year. I had to move fast, so I dropped my Theatre and Dance major, lined my ducks up in a row, switched to a Fine Arts major, and commenced my thesis research. These times involved a lot of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘bell hooks’
July 13, 2009
Renee Cox
Filed under Art, Lifestyle/Fashion, Opinion, politics
Tags: Adrian Piper, agitation, Amherst College, Art, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Betty Friedan, Black women, Blackness, Carla Williams, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, epiphany, feminism, Fine Arts major, Harriet Jacobs, Jane Austen, Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, NYU, On Photography, past lives, Phillis Wheatley, photography, photography thesis, Queen Victoria, Renee Cox, Susan Sontag, The Feminine Mystique, theatre major, undergraduate
February 28, 2009
The Black List Project Continued. . .
For some reason, it always hits a nerve when a female coeval says she is not a feminist.
“Why do we need feminism?/Aren’t we all equal now?/I have never experienced sexism, what’s the big deal?/I don’t identify with those bra burning feminists!/It’s for white affluent women, it’s not for me/The girls I know who are feminists [...]
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Tags: Albany, Angela Davis, Art, Audre Lorde, Barack Obama, bell hooks, Berkeley, Black History Month, Center for the Advancement of Women, El Cerrito, equality, Faye Wattleton, feminism, herstory, History, lesbian, lesbianism, Los Encuentros, Manifesta, Marin County, Medical Apartheid, Patrica Hill Collins, photography, politics, race, Rigoberta Menchu, San Domenico Upper School, sexism, social movements, The Birthing Project, women, Women's History Month, women's liberation movement