Because I am a Woman
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Yes I see the comments, and I know that “we don’t all like sex”, but for those of us who do.
The “Manhood” poster series was created by artist, and San Francisco native, Deborah Enrile Lao as a way to inspire young Asian American boys and men. The series consists of screen printed posters of five iconic Asian American men—Richard Aoki, George Takei, Jeremy Lin, Bruce Lee and DJ Qbert. In Lao’s artist statement, she writes:
This piece challenges the unkind, one dimensional portrait of Asian American men in mainstream Western media. By exuding strength, creativity, leadership and masculinity, these five icons buck characterizations of Asian American men as meek nerds who never get the girl (or guy). Bold paper colors and a minimal illustration style reclaims the one dimensional space into one that portrays these men as “superheroes” that young boys and men can aspire to be like.
These are really cool! I love that the artist is consciously looking to put forth positive images of Asian men for young people to look to. I know someone had asked me not so long ago about healthy expressions of masculinity, and I think this portrait series plays into that. It provides healthy role models for young people who do choose to identify as a man, while showing them that there is more than one way to be a man, (in this case an Asian man).
Lara Schnitger
Neuken in de Keuken, 2006
Fabric, wood
A few pages from a sex-positive zine I made in my Violence Against Women’s class. Kinda proud of it. A lot of feminists I respect in that class gave me nothing but positive feedback.
(via hellyeahfeminism)
Kara Walker installing Gone… in 1994.
An amazing and incredible artist. You should check out here work. Really. Do it.
So today in art history, we watched a short clippette about Judy Chicago, a blooming (heh, you’ll soon understand this pun) artist in the mid to late 20th century who attracted a grand amount of controversy, particularly over the most famous of her works, The Dinner Party. Most in fact would not so much as humor it as art. Why was so so widely detested you might ask? Because there, sculpted and painted and slapped on dinner plates, were vaginas for all to see. Oh right, and they weren’t just vaginas but those of specific women, those who had been omitted from history when they had quite obviously earned their places there. THERE WAS UPROAR. Not only at the public level, but at that of politics and people of power. Grotesque they called it.
So what was Judy Chicago trying to portray? At first I thought the piece a little carelessly thought-out, and in fact my first thought was that it was anti-feminist as it seemed to offer the vaginas, symbols of womanhood, not only to the taking but to the consumption as part of the lavish lay. Turning this thought over in my head once or twice I realized that The Dinner Table was indeed doing just that, but rather than endorse this mindset it mocked it through submission to its ridiculous ideals in a sort of sarcasm. The second thing it did was to show the beauty and uniqueness of each vagina. If you’ve ever seen a vagina, you know that they’re fucking ugly, but what they represent (female sexuality and….I suppose…childbirth) is rather spectacular. I think what I love most about it though is the brashness of it, the seeming pomp and splendor of a feast with each course something so shocking placed in that context. WHICH IS ALSO WHY I LOVELOVELOVE DUCHAMP’S FOUNTAIN. Brilliant stuff.
Ok, ranting and bubbling and babbling and such over with.
There is nothing ugly about genitals, but this is a really cool piece!
Colourful illustrations by incredibly talented Nigerian artist Ibeabuchi Ananaba
These are incredible!
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
Let’s call a spade a spade, this is the faithful portrait of a vulva. Cast in plaster, an object of desire celebrating the beauty of the V.
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918
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Beautiful prints for Planned Parenthood!
Marilyn Monroe I - James Rosenquist, 1962
(via safercampus)
