On December 18th, WEIRD SISTER hosted The Feminist Selfie, an event exploring #365FeministSelfie, Hello Selfie, and other projects and performances that look at selfies through a feminist lens. I read this piece about participating in #365FeministSelfie, a project created by Veronica Arreola in response to the ongoing debate about selfies as empowering media vs. narcissistic cries for help. #365FeministSelfie invited feminists to post a selfie each day for the entire year of 2014, which I did—give or take a few days. In honor of the year, and the project, ending, I’m posting this piece today along with a bunch of my #365FeministSelfies from the year.
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On Halloween, I snuck out of work early in full work-appropriate Halloween costume and rushed to Soho to make sure I caught the Stevie Nicks Selfie exhibit, 24 Karat Gold, on the last day before it closed. The show is made up of a series of Polaroid self-portraits that Nicks took beginning in the mid-seventies. Some of the photos are taken in her home, some in hotels around the world. In most of them the camera’s remote is hidden. In one of the photos, “The Key,” which shows Stevie leaning against a concrete structure in a pool, she’s holding the remote above the water for the camera to see. She never intended for anyone to see these pictures. But this year she decided to share them with the world. Continue reading
