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Today, Dido Elizabeth Belle is England’s first aristocrat who was not only of African descent but born into slavery. Belle grew up in a time where the American Colonies were forming as the United States of America and England still had slavery. As a young girl, she was sent to…
It was a morbid place of gray concrete, narrow corridors, iron doors, and cold light. Not a place where anybody could feel comfortable, especially not
Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Pennsylvania in 1864, journalist Nellie Bly (she adopted the pen name because at the time, women reporters didn’t use their real names) moved to New York in 188…
Les femmes vivent donc en moyenne 6 ans de plus que les hommes. Parmi les explications à ce phénomène, on ne peut pas écarter le comportement de ces mecs qui croquent la vie et le danger à pleines den...
Sarah Andersen est une dessinatrice américaine de 23 ans dont nous vous avions déjà parlé il y a de ça quelques mois. Basée à Brooklyn, la jeune femme...
Georges Dudognon, Juliette Greco, Paris 1951
Radical movements often espouse the most conservative of values. Dada claimed it was radical, anti-bourgeoise, and anti-capitalist in its aesthetics. But two of its key members (George Grosz and John Heartfield) refused to include any women (or their work) in the movement. Women, they said, were there to make the sandwiches, pour the beer, and … Continue reading "Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’"
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Louis-Léopold Boilly, Carnival Scene ( Scène de carnaval) , 1832, The Ramsbury Manor Foundation. Photo © courtesy the Trustees LONDON - In 2019, the National Gallery will stage the first-ever exhibition in the UK devoted to Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845),...
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Anne Briggs, a free spirit of the 1960s, was also one of the most distinctive and influential singers on the folk scene. 'If I hadn't heard her,' says June Tabor, 'I'd have probably done something entirely different.' "She was," writes Colin Harper in his accompanying biographical
Cassandra Calin est une jeune artiste Roumaine de 21 ans, installée à Montréal, au Canada. Son truc ? Dessiner des petites bandes dessinées basées sur...
You can almost feel it—the reconsideration, long overdue. There’s that scene in Euphoria where Sydney Sweeney downs a bottle of wine to “Drink Before the War,” and belts out the lyrics. A deeper cut on Peaky Blinders’s last season—“In This Heart,” from 1994—played over a pivotal funeral scene. Olivia Rodrigo covered “Nothing Compares 2 U” at a concert in Dublin this summer to rapturous cheers. And the rising post-punk band Fontaines D.C. claim “Troy” as a central influence on their acclaimed new
Wall Art A Lady Tombstone, Arizona Summer 2009
Sexism and misogyny are not the same — and the difference matters.
In 1998 Portuguese born artist Paula Rego created a series of work entitled Untitled. The Abortion Pastels. Rego created her work in response to a referendum to legalise abortion in Portugal, whic…
This was uploaded to the Esfinges facebook page today! (An independent, female branch of HEMA) The portrait is of Louise Labe, painted in the 1500s.
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On a demandé à deux expertes de nous expliquer les dessous de l'infidélité féminine : pourquoi est-elle diabolisée, pourquoi trompe-t-on et se contenter d'un·e partenaire est-il concrètement réalisable ?
Portrait painter Agnes Goodsir’s early art training was undertaken in Victoria before she left to study in London and Paris from about 1899. She settled permanently in Paris in 1921 where she was part of the prominent lesbian milieu. Her ...
I posted this image on my Instagram account a few days ago, thinking it had a pretty faithful and powerful message. I immediately started receiving positive feedback from the females who followed me…