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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte Marie wrote and sang the anthem for the peace movement of the 60s. She was blacklisted by the government for her "subversive" ideas. She said many wise things including: "Artists are the people who are able to resist the school system fragmenting us because it's convenient to do so, when the art teacher is in competition with the music teacher, and all creativity is in competition with the 'real' curriculum."
Sarah Jones - "Your Revolution"
A take-off of the the hip-pop culture's misogyny and a blatant refusal to participate in it. Sarah Jones rocks as a poet and performer. The Federal Communications Commission tried to impose an indecency ruling on the lyrics so the poem couldn't be played on radio. Hmm. I wonder why.
If I can't dance.....
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution" Emma Goldman, anarcha-feminism's founder. Some say this was a misquote but it's been attributed to Goldman for many years and it's beautiful so why stop now.
Gender Trouble
"I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it." Judith Butler in the 1990 Preface to Gender Trouble.
Pornography: Men possessing women
“Male domination of the female body is the basic reality of women’s lives; and all struggle for dignity and self-determination is rooted in the stuggle for actual control of one’s own body, especially control over physical access to one’s own body.” Andrea Dworkin
Rape the forgotten issue, New Statesman
"We have failed to create a sexual culture in which women’s sexual autonomy is cultivated and respected, for the majority of young people sex continues to be something men take, with young women’s ambivalence and uncertainty a challenge to be overcome." Professor Liz Kelly, Chair of the End Violence Against Women Campaign in New Statesman.
Ways of Seeing
“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.” John Berger
Feminist Activist Forum website
This is the page for the Stop Rape working group.
Feminist Activist Forum media pages
This page deals with mainstream media and how it portrays women. It's also a space for feminist zines.
Larry Herman website
Larry Herman is a photographer with a big focus on fighting inequality and injustice.
IRIS
IRIS photography is a research resource dedicated to promoting the work of women artists using photographic-based media.
http://www.irisphoto.org/live/photographer_overview.asp?memberID=190
Alexis Hunter
Alexis Hunter is an artist who looks at ideas on society and the role of women. She took photographs of men in her "Object" and "Yes, no, maybe" series. We're working together to put on a two-person show called Feminist images of men 1973-2008.