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Artist Alia Ali is Challenging Our Perception of Bodies
How do you read a body completely covered in patterned fabric? Artist Alia Ali obscures culture, race, and gender to unveil our assumptions about identity.
Artist Genevieve Cohn On Finding Strength in Uncertainty
Taking chances isn’t always easy, but artist Genevieve Cohn believes embracing uncertainty can lead to amazing things.
The True Cost of Designer High Heels
Designer high heels can cost thousands, but determining their real worth is a lot more complicated.
Why Are People So Angry Miss America Is Losing Its Swimsuit Competition?
Allison Geller responds to the Twitter outcry about eliminating the swimsuit competition in the Miss America pageant.
Becoming Anna Karenina in the Era of Modern Feminism
Tolstoy’s iconic classic “Anna Karenina” sheds light on current issues related to gender and politics.
“I Am Queen Mary” – Monument of a Rebel Queen Challenges Denmark’s Forgotten Colonial Past
Danish artist Jeannette Ehlers and Virgin Islands artist La Vaughn Belle have teamed up to create a monumental public sculpture entitled “I am queen Mary.”
How the #MeToo Movement Highlights Internalized Misogyny
The #MeToo movement isn’t just shifting the conversation when it comes to rape culture. It’s helping to shed light on internalized misogyny too.
What Millennial Women Can Learn From “The Golden Girls”
In praise of the absolutely anxiety-quelling quality of the iconic ‘80s sitcom “The Golden Girls.”
On Clara Bow and Hollywood’s Impossible Standards
Hollywood pretends to accept a diverse group of women, but the roles for plus-sized women and women of color just aren’t there.
Art in the Age of Instagram: Odessa Straub
Odessa Straub is a multi-media artist in the broadest sense, working in latex, leather, cord, plexiglass and steel cables, not to mention paint.
Art in the Age of Instagram: Nicole Reber
Somewhere along the way, “millennial” became a dirty word, or at least a tainted one—shorthand for lethargy, entitlement and fecklessness. All the while, young female artists were getting to work. A Women’s…
Learning to Deal With Mean Girls As an Adult
Developing a healthy sense of self-confidence as an adult may make it easier to deal with the office bully.
Art in the Age of Instagram: Reisha Perlmutter
Reisha Perlmutter’s works in water is art of the double-take variety, possessing a photographic quality upon first glance. Perlmutter studied painting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from The New York Academy of Art.