I am a feminist, does that make my art feminist by default? If my artwork is specifically feminist, is it still art or does it become propaganda?
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Squares roll worse than circles, but they build better walls. Sometimes we need a wall and sometimes a wheel. Both are important.
Comments closedMen are considered more important than women. And many physical, mental and spiritual diseases originate in this dismissal of the feminine.
Leave a CommentTo get people to reject an idea by suggesting that the same idea is shared by groups that they despise is an established propaganda technique.
Comments closedIs the increase in hairless surface inversely proportional to the loss of civil liberties that we have been suffering during the last thirty years?
Comments closedIf the public feels that by encouraging feminist art it participates in something important for humanity, funding it won’t be a problem.
Comments closedSmith wasn’t interested in how things were, but in how they should be. He attacked greed and defended moderation, decency and justice.
Comments closedArt is always political. It exists within a context and uses elements that have a historical, political and social dimension.
Comments closedMost artists through history have produced art that has been homogenous, conformist and compliant.
Comments closedThe arts world is a reflection of its surroundings. Academics and artists have internalised the needs of the system that they live in.
Comments closedIt is essential for people to distinguish between the insignificant and the essential. But in the current context it is very difficult to discriminate.
Comments closedOur advanced capitalist market economy is based on the relationship between supply and demand and on specialised production of goods and knowledge.
Comments closedIn Plato’s and Aristotle’s time, art had a social function. Today we are used to art for art’s sake.
Comments closedIt has to be possible to distinguish between what is art and what is not for any theory of art to exist.
Comments closedHaving to go back to work is one of the main causes for mothers to stop breastfeeding or not even start.
Comments closedI noticed that the merits of women and the merits of men were not measured equally, even when they were the same. Expectations varied too.
Comments closedThe ones that defined the former rules should not be allowed to define the new ones because we have already seen how badly they worked.
Comments closedWhy do people think it is normal to tell a woman in labour when to push?
Comments closedWe want a society that we enjoy being part of and that we can be proud of.
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