Swimming in One's Self as a Political Act

March 30, 2013
Audre Lorde

"...and when we speak we are afraid

our words will not be heard

nor welcomed

but when we are silent

we are still afraid

So it is better to speak

remembering

we were never meant to survive"

(from "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde)

March 31, 2013
Josephine Baker

"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on." Josephine Baker

Social Activism: 1876 to 2013

March 28, 2013
Somaly Mam

 While Mu Sochua works to undo the political misogyny that enables young girls to be sold as slaves, Somaly Mam works to help heal those young girls by giving them shelter and speaking out about her own story. More about her work here:http://www.afesip.org/, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEx75iqUAho , and here: http://somaly.org/

March 29, 2013
Zitkala Sa

Zitkala Sa, born in 1876 on the Pine Hill Reservation in South Dakota  she spent her life confronting the injustice of the United Stats Government treatment of Native Tribes.  Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lUVW_sAmxs

Confronting Modern Day Slavery

March 25, 2013
Malina Suliman

Malina Suliman is an artist working in Kundahar province in Afghanistan. More about her work to expose oppression and intolerance at her website: http://maloaa3.com/?page_id=6

March 26, 2013
Rachel Lloyd

Rachel Lloyd is working to expose child trafficking in the US. She is the founder of GEMS (Girls Educational And Mentoring Services www.gems-girls.org) More from her here (She is a POWERFUL speaker): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ij_6iMi9gA

March 27, 2013
Mu Sochua

 Mu Sochua is a MP from Cambodia where she directly confronts violence against women especially the child human trafficking "industry" that forces too many young girls into the "sex tourism" business. More here: http://vimeo.com/17575841

Documenting and Liberating: The Statesperson, the Reporter, and the Artist

March 22, 2013
Hillary Rodham Clinton

March 23, 2013
Rhitu Chatterjee

March 24, 2013
Kathe Kollwitz

Lucy and Frida

March 20, 2013
Lucy Lippard

 "I've been accused of being a moving target. But what target in its right mind won't move? And what good art is not a moving target? Mobility (and flexibility) has become a strategy as well as a temperamental and intellectual preference." 

Lucy Lippard (from The Pink Glass Swan)

March 21, 2013
Frida Kahlo

"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration." 

Frida Kahlo

Constructing Revolutions: The Sculptor, the Painter and the Poet

March 18, 2013
Louise Nevelson

 "True strength is delicate." ~Louise Nevelson

March 18, 2013 (ALSO)
Homage to Dorothea Tanning

 "Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now."

 ~Dorothea Tanning

March 19, 2013
Andrea Gibson

"She's not asking what you're gonna tell your daughter, she's asking what you're gonna teach your son." ~Andrea Gisbon

Confronting Race, Gender and Class Status through Words, Acting and Maps

March 15, 2013
Ntozake Shange

one thing I dont need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i dont know what to do wit em
they dont open doors
from "for colored girls who have considered suicide with the rainbow is enuf"

March 16, 2013
LyndaCarterWonderWoman

As a child with dark hair, 
seeing her as a self assured and powerful woman on television every week was important.  

More here on how she got her role: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koYvZ3SklIQ

March 17, 2013
Sikha Patra

“Before, my identity was either as my grandfather’s granddaughter or my father’s daughter or as someone who lives in the house by the temple,” she says. “Now, they say, ‘Oh, that’s Shikha.’ Or, ‘That’s the girl who does surveys – or teaches kids to paint – or trains them in sports.’ I feel like they know me for who I am.” 

More here: http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/kids-improve-lives-in-kolkata-slums/

Words written, chiseled and spoken

March 12, 2013
Margaret Atwood

March 13, 2013
Camille Claudel

March 14, 2013
Sarah Kay

Reporting

March 10, 2013
Gloria Steinham

Why Gloria Steinham in a Playboy Bunny Costume? Read the article "I Was a Playboy Bunny" here: http://www.gloriasteinem.com/updates/2011/8/22/i-was-a-playboy-bunny.html

March 11, 2013
Ofeiba Quist-Arcton

At least once a week, as I drive to work and listen to NPR, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton's voice illuminates my car. Her voice is not only beautiful, but she is a reporter in Africa telling it like it is from the perspective of the people rather than the government run broadcasting system. (more here on that: http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14904) Also, seriously the way she says "Dakar" makes my knees melt. But that is just rainbow sprinkles on my revolutionary sundae...

Silueta des flores

March 9, 2013
Ana Mendieta

Thankfully VAWA was reauthorized a few days ago. Perhaps Ms. Mendieta would have been still making art today if VAWA had been around in 1985. Although her husband was acquitted of any charges surrounding her death (she fell/jumped/was thrown from her apartment balcony) their relationship was rather violent. Of Mendieta's supporters, a chunk of the (misogynist) art community called them the rabid "feminist cabal." Hmmm, asking to be treated with dignity, equity and respect makes one a conniving plotter?

A Dame and a Landowner

March 7, 2013
Maggie Smith

For this reason among others, Maggie Smith:http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50141241n

March 8, 2013 (International Women's Day)
Woman Farmer in Sahel

Through micro-lending like KIVA, women in some Sahel Desert communities (especially in Nigeria and Mali) are able to not only feed their families but nourish their communities AND through sustainable agriculture help to heal the damage done to the Sahel because of Human impacted climate change. These communities are inclusive and ALL members regardless of gender beneficial from the small businesses the women run. These women run farms and small businesses also aid in the education of girls and boys thereby improving the lot for future generation. Women also have less children but those children tend to have lower mortality rates. Women as farmers and business owners often is beneficial for the WHOLE ecosystem.

The Judge and the Hooligan

March 3, 2013
Unity Dow

March 4, 2013
Pussy Riot GRRRRL

Every child has a universe in their mind...

March 1, 2013
Malala Yousafzai

"Today you can see that I am alive...I want every  girl, every child , to be educated."

March 2, 2013
Yoko Ono

"You may think I am small, but I have a universe in my mind."