“We can beautifully fracture our surfaces when we are challenged to confront what appear to be the limits of our selves. This is what working in collaboration means to me.”–Poet Dawn Lundy Martin
Charli XCX says her documentary, “The F Word and Me” is exploring how “the question ‘whats it like to be a woman in the music industry’ is annoying/complex but still necessary.”
Is designer Isabel Marant inspired or appropriating?
Need to see how the U.S. 2016 Presidential and Senate candidates feel about reproductive rights? Here you go.
“Our bodies are constantly hailed and defined by other people. To me, as a writer, what I want to explore is how we experience our own bodies and how our experiences of our bodies speak to who we are as individuals, how we see ourselves, and the complexity of our experience.” –Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Cathy Park Hong announces Safiya Sinclair as the winner of the 2015 Boston Review Poetry Contest.
Was Gandhi a misogynist?
“I often just want to do something (to) illuminate the experiences that queer and mentally ill women face, especially where they intersect: how alienating it can feel to be a part of these marginalized groups, how it can feel like the world’s not meant to you. Hopefully, to those who share my experiences, they can identify themselves in my works & know there are things out them specifically for them.”–Maddie Christie
Check out this new poem by Emily Brandt.
New Yorkers: tickets are selling out fast to the iconic queer-feminist-video-art-performance-band, Tracy + the Plastics New Museum performance. If you’ve never seen Wynne Greenwood as Tracy + co., then you are missing out.
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
