How this artist is difficult conservatism in Brazilian political

28 Feb

Aun Helden incorporates phallic and maternal imagery into their work to oppose the rigid binary standards of a cis-heteronormative patriarchal society Brazilian artist and performer Aun Helden desires to tear down the constructs and constrictions around our bodies and begin again. Their work moves towards an understanding of gender and sex that’s free from cis-heteronormative patriarchal definitions. Un-gendering and un-sexing themself of their online artwork, they're rebuilding themself fluidly with seeming full creative autonomy over their appearance. Inspired partly by their mother, and in lieu of a father figure, they've repoistioned themselves as a maternal figure presiding over their very own body. Fertile imagery abounds of their work; glossy black eggs, vulvic prosthetics, phallic facial appendages...

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13 Oct

Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

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Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

Ahead of the discharge of her recent book Disobedient Bodies, we spoke to the creator about finding joy in spirituality and capitalism’s impact on women’s self-image How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, creator and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable on the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being. In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the creator of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old...

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4 Oct

Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

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9 Jul

The Manic American Humanist Show explores life on the

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The Manic American Humanist Show explores life on the

Going down at Public Works Administration in Latest York, the exhibition features works by core members of the web collective Do Not Research From the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests to the meme magick within the run as much as the 2016 Trump election and the emergence of the Dirtbag Left in the course of the Bernie Sanders campaign, there’s a recent breed of American citizen emerging. Their political impulses can now not be neatly mapped onto the X-Y axis of the political compass, nor are you able to tell their political allegiances by how they dress and the places they hang around. The Overton window has cracked open and given method to...

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