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13 Apr

Is bodybuilding the brand new queer feminist act? Well,

Female bodybuilders exist outside of traditional notions of femininity, with some positioning it as a queer and feminist act. Nevertheless it’s a bit more nuanced than that When Love Lies Bleeding comes out in May, it would shine a highlight on a version of femininity and the feminine body that we don’t often get to see in mainstream media. The erotic thriller, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy M O’Brien, centres around a queer relationship between bodybuilder Jackie and Lou, a gym manager, and follows because the two get tousled with Lou’s criminal family.  Together with her ripped, muscular body, sculpted six-pack and beefy arms, Katy – like many female athletes – is antithetical to...
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12 Apr

Is bodybuilding the brand new queer feminist act? Well,

Female bodybuilders exist outside of traditional notions of femininity, with some positioning it as a queer and feminist act. Nevertheless it’s a bit more nuanced than that When Love Lies Bleeding comes out in May, it should shine a highlight on a version of femininity and the feminine body that we don’t often get to see in mainstream media. The erotic thriller, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy M O’Brien, centres around a queer relationship between bodybuilder Jackie and Lou, a gym manager, and follows because the two get twisted up with Lou’s criminal family.  Along with her ripped, muscular body, sculpted six-pack and beefy arms, Katy – like many female athletes – is antithetical...
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9 Nov

Jezebel, the Feminist Website that Punctured the Patriarchy, Shuts Down

Jezebel, the sassy feminist website that launched from the rib of Gawker, is shutting down. Citing the “economic headwinds rattling [the] industry,” G/O Media, the parent company of Jezebel, said on Thursday that it will suspend publication of Jezebel after it failed to search out a buyer during a troublesome economic slog for digital publishers. The choice will impact 23 employees, including all the Jezebel staff and G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown, who will exit the corporate. Launched in 2007 by author Anna Holmes, Jezebel quickly became a must-read for a young generation of third-wave feminists laboring amid a really much intact patriarchy. The Recent York-centric site offered a daring and caustic critique of traditional women’s magazines, with their male-gaze-centered deal...
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28 Mar

The world in response to VALIE EXPORT, feminist art

From wearing genital-exposing pants, taking her name from a cigarette brand, and confronting strangers with the invitation to grope her breasts, we remember the novel artist’s most rebellious, provocative works Educated in a convent until the age of 14, the pioneering feminist artist VALIE EXPORT would spend her life removing the shackles of her religious upbringing. “My artworks are still a rebel against the Catholic faith,” she said in an interview in 2019. Born Waltraud Lehner in Linz, Austria in 1940, she was higher known by her nickname ‘Walie’. In 1967, she renounced her father’s and her ex-husband’s names to forge a recent identity – VALIE EXPORT. The one woman artist among the many...
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