feminist art Archives

alice walker

beyonce

Black American Gothic: A Southern Herstory of Black Magic Women

For many black Americans, the South holds a bittersweet place in our heart; as much home as sorrow, as much ghostly as ancestral. Detangling our history is harder than detangling…

Krista White —

Oct 30, 2019

artist spotlight

feminist art

visual art

Step “Inside The Black Triangle” and Explore Queer Identities at Denver Pride This Weekend

Inside The Black Triangle is a photo series intending to highlight the struggles, joy, heartbreak, confusion, and diverse experiences of queer women living in a heteronormative world, and the artist…

Vanessa —

Jun 14, 2018

body positivity

death is sad

visual art

Laura Aguilar, Groundbreaking Lesbian Chicana Photographer, Dies at 58

Aguilar was a pioneer in sharing the faces and experiences of various Latina lesbians in the 90s, when there was very little representation. Aguilar’s art gives the marginalized and subcultures…

Yvonne —

Apr 26, 2018

feminist art

janelle monae

society + culture

Sunday Funday Is Sliding into Taurus Season

Feminist films, feminist fonts, and ?. It’s Sunday Funday!

Ari —

Apr 22, 2018

feminist art

fullscreen

visual art

GALLERY: Maggie West’s Neon NSFW Full-Frontal Fight Against Rape Culture

In a new art installation, Los Angeles-based photographer Maggie West, who specializes in experimental technicolor lighting and whose work increasingly critiques still-rigid contemporary ideas about gender and sexuality, worked with…

Ryan Yates —

Sep 14, 2017

#buyindiebuyqueer

2016 election

queer fashion

This Thanksgiving, Be The Raging Feminist Killjoy Your Family Fears with FASHION

Why not bring the fight to them? Wear your heart and your guts and your politics on your sleeve. And across your chest, and on your head.

Laneia —

Nov 16, 2016

"personality cult"

feminist art

the scene

Team Pick: Celebrate Kaylah’s Face, Queer Art

Kaylah’s face is the official face of a queer art exhibition stacked with badass queer artists including Chelsea Barg, Shannon Lester, and Shelley Penner, among others.

Carmen —

Aug 4, 2016

Claudia Rankine

feminist art

visual art

The Best Radical Anti-Racist Art I Encountered This Year

There were some moments of anti-racist creativity that were so sublime, I’d like to take a moment to honor them. These are the top ten moments of radical art or…

Aisha —

Dec 29, 2015

Daily Fix

feminism

movie news & trailers

Gal Gadot to Play Wonder Woman in Upcoming Batman vs. Superman

Warner Bros. is finally making a movie with Wonder Woman! They’ve announced that actress Gal Gadot will be playing the Amazonian warrior in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie.

Mey —

Dec 5, 2013

alison bechdel

Daily Fix

movie features

The Mako Mori Test is Here to Fill Another Spot on Your Feminist Film Criticism Toolbelt

For a long time the Bechdel test has seemingly been the only tool we have to examine sexist trends in Hollywood. Now, thanks to Pacific Rim, the Mako Mori test…

Mey —

Aug 23, 2013

a-camp workshop

camp autostraddle

lgbt history

Eleven Women of Color You Should Know and Admire

Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.

the team —

May 22, 2013

event

feminist art

visual art

Drinks, Debauchery, and Oh Yeah, Art: A Queer Goes To Art Basel

“Rachel Maddow is actually really sweet in person. Like, really really sweet.”

Najva Sol —

Dec 26, 2012