“That Lady Thing in San Francisco gives issues of sexism an unlikely coat of color in a lighthearted way of communicating a serious message” Tags: dripfeed_critical_gender
“She first opted for her side gig during a particularly rough patch, several years ago, when her course load was suddenly cut in half and her income plunged, putting her on the brink of eviction. “In…
“Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, is not just a fantastic exhibition. It’s the kind of exhibition that people always say we need more of—as regular as a ticking clock—every…
Last month, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins came under fire for her suggestion that government contractors should aim to hire 40% women. Tags: dripfeed_critical_gender
“So it’s Black History Month. Most media outlets are busy honoring the usual historical figures of African descent, as they should. But this is Afro-punk, and it’s time to take minute to acknowledge the ultimate counter-culture…
In the early 1980s, young gay women, many still teenagers, gravitated to London, attracted by its diversity and experimentation. A lesbian subculture grew up around the squats of Brixton and Hackney. ‘You could tell which houses…
For the first time in HERstory, the Pan Afrikan Poets Cafe will be hitting Sydney. Zimbabwean storyteller, Poets Cafe founder, radio broadcaster and educator Sista Zai Zanda is bringing a powerful line-up of female wordsmiths and…
I first came across 17th-century writer Margaret Cavendish in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: “What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind! As if some giant cucumber…
“In theatre and performance, many women are defying genres and blurring boundaries, making the kind of artistic leaps and inspiring work that unfortunately can’t always be found at the major companies. The below highlights of this…
Social movements are not monoliths. They are multifaceted, fragmented, and often inconsistent. Two people who call themselves feminist may have almost entirely different conceptions of what the term means, and the priorities of one may exclude…
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to the Art Gallery of NSW to talk about feminism, multiculturalism and art and the way artworks embody global politics in 2016. This was in relation to an…
And of course I leave feeling like STC give more shits about Mamet’s prestige than they do about the actual human women who buy theatre tickets and love Rose Byrne – a modern comic hero for women,…
Star Trek is no stranger to making radical statements — this is the show that had the first black woman as a regular cast member, that featured the first interracial kiss, that puts a woman on the bridge…
‘Does the NGV have a problem with women?’ The Guardian recently asked its vast readership. More shocking than seeing the question in print, was that we already know the answer. The NGV has a problem with…
Women in Iceland are encouraged by unions and women’s organizations to walk out of their workplaces at 2:38 pm today. In Reykjavík, they will convene on Austurvöllur square, where a program begins at 3:15 pm to…
Women in Iceland are encouraged by unions and women’s organizations to walk out of their workplaces at 2:38 pm today. In Reykjavík, they will convene on Austurvöllur square, where a program begins at 3:15 pm to…
Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Emma Rice has highlighted the loaded criticisms she has faced running a major theatre as a woman. She described it as “extraordinary” how much her first few months in charge of the…
The Guerrilla Girls have just released the results of their latest investigation into diversity in the art world—and they’re grim. The results, which appear below, will be on view at the Whitechapel Gallery in London from…