Why not start off the new year by getting inspired by dynamic women artists?
Tag: Kara Walker
Kara Walker is an artist, filmmaker and professor who explores the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
Consuming Sugar: Kara Walker’s Marvelous Sugar Baby
Sugar has been one of the world’s most desired commodities since the 19th century, when it went from being a luxury item to a product of mass consumption. The demand […]
“Slave Rape” and the Story of Sukie
Sukie offers us protest strategies and reminds us that, even within an institutionalized system of slave rape, we can still reclaim our bodies. Neither “ultimate victim” nor “porn fetish,” Sukie subverts the tools of sexual violence and the auction block to make her own claim for full womanhood and full humanity.
Are Women More Aggressive These Days?
For a book that might be mistaken for a treatise on violent women, Maud Lavin’s recent Push Comes to Shove covers territory of another kind: specific case studies of women’s […]