“Sexist attitudes and simple lust may fuel some men’s desire to become a sexual predator, but impunity allows them to act on that desire. If the goal is for women to be able to operate in the music industry (or anywhere) free of harassment, assaults, discrimination, and predation, removing that impunity would seem like a good place to start. And that might—might—be what’s happening right now.”–From “Breaking the Silence in the Music Industry”
“When we keep prioritizing the same voices and narratives over and over again, we get trapped inside a self-replicating machine of This Is What Important Literature Looks Like.” Go HERE to check out a list of Women Run Presses.
A Minnesota police officer apologized about his disturbing Black Lives Matter post. Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter protesters called for justice at the U.S. Mayors Conference.
“Referring to herself as a drag queen, a hermaphrodite, and a ‘sexual repulsive,’ Davis used her performances to critique the many contexts in which she was undesirable. ‘I don’t fit into mainstream society, but I also don’t really fit into alternative culture, either,’ she told me recently. ‘I was always too gay for the punks and too punk for the gays. I am a societal threat.'”–From “The ‘Terrorist Drag’ of Vaginal Davis”
“We’re continuing to lose affordable housing, not just subsidized housing, for just regular working people,” said City Councilwoman Patsy Kinsey on how Charlotte’s oldest black neighborhood is grappling with gentrification
“Every aesthetic decision, Frida points out, reflects a value system, and if the values are determined by wealthy men, then art museums are not truly representative.”–Check out the Guerrilla Girls on the Colbert Show
“It made me realize the systematic racism of making images, too. I learned that the default in film production is a white guy working on it. Doing color was crazy, thinking about film stocks and making things for black skin. Color, just on a programatic level, kind of freaked me out—every way you make a film look, what darkness represents or what lightness represents. With skin, how to make dark skin look better, the defaults aren’t built that way. In making a film about black aesthetics specifically, it was exploring all of those things. But now that I’ve done it once, I’m excited to make more and really push.”–Artist Martine Syms on the struggles of creating moving images
“In 1967 Moorman was arrested for public indecency during a half-naked cello performance of Paik’s Opera Sextronique, earning her the nickname ‘the topless cellist.’ (Paik, whose score called for the nudity, wasn’t charged.) Moorman would subsequently do battle with a reputation that cast her within an objectifying gaze: as a provocateur using nudity as a gimmick instead of as an artist reclaiming sexuality within the typically neutered arena of music performance.”
“While Alanis Morrisette and Liz Phair were trying to hitch a ride out of Guyville, Amos was razing the patriarchy to the ground, serving up vampiric ex-boyfriends to Pele, the Hawaiian fire goddess rumoured to enjoy man flesh: ‘I wanted to sacrifice all these guys to the volcano goddess and roast them like marshmallows, she explained.”–Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary
Camille Paglia on how “Bowie’s gender-bending costumes and overt bisexuality were not politically correct.”
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