by Chiara Palmeri
“I lived in his shadow, in the imprisonment he imposed, but he never slapped me.”
Tag: female body
Poem: Unlearning
by Paula Werdnik
“I learnt from a young age that to be a woman is to be water…”
Trans healthcare now! A 1050 minutes long demonstration in front of Radboud UMC
by Plamena Dimova The protest for transgender* rights took place in front of Radboud UMC on the 30th of September, lasted from 7 in the morning until midnight. This is no coincidence. Currently, the waiting time for trans healthcare in the Netherlands is approximately 150 weeks (3 years!), which means 1050 days of waiting – and thus, 1050 minutes of protesting as a form of resistance.
“Girls just wanna have fun(damental rights)”: A review of Bucharest Feminist Film Festival
by Alex Banciu The Bucharest Feminist Film Festival took place from September 14 to September 17. It was its third edition. The theme for this year was consent, and each day had its own sub-theme. On the day I was present, the subject was body politics.
How Frida Kahlo’s representation of miscarriage challenges cultural expectations of women’s bodies – An analysis of My Birth (1932)
by Nanette Ashby The representation of the pregnant body is a rare theme in visual arts, especially if it doesn’t represent a happy ending. Visualizing the pain and sorrow of a miscarriage is a traitorous endeavour. Miscarriages are, even today, largely taboo even though they are relatively common. Art interrogates and dissects the lived experience.
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