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Artist Feature: Renata Crespo Suárez
Renata Crespo graduated Bachelor of History from the University of Havana in 2019, Renata simultaneously studied photography at the School of Creative Photography of Havana. In 2016 she enrolled the National Geographic Photo Camp that took place in November of that year, as part of the cultural exchanges that were maintained during the so-called ‘‘Cuban thaw’’ (normalization of the relations between Cuba and the United States), started by the Obama administration. Renata has participated in four group exhibitions and threw her first solo exhibition, ‘‘Unusual people’’ in April 2019.
Feminist Author Feature: Laetitia Ky
Love and Justice is equal parts memoir, artwork, and feminist manifesto. Ky's striking words, combined with 135 remarkable photographs, offer empowerment and inspiration. She emerges from her exploration of justice and equality with a message of self-love, showing readers the path to loving themselves and their bodies, expressing their voices, and feeling more confident. Through this celebration of women's empowerment, Ky extends a generous invitation to love ourselves, embrace our unique beauty, and to work toward a more just world.
International women’s day 2022 with leading climate justice feminists
Climate liberation is connected to women's liberation. For International Women’s Day 2022, Feminist highlighted this intersection with some of the leading women climate justice activists from @badactivistcollective, @fridaysforfuturemapa, #CodeRedActNow and Indigenous Futures.
Artist Feature: Alisa Gorshenina
Alisa Gorshenina (alice hualice), 27 years old. Alisa was born in Yakshina village in the Urals. At present she lives in Nizhny Tagil. Alisa graduated from the art faculty of the Nizhniy Tagil Social and Pedagogical Institute. She works with a variety of mediums, such as: painting, graphics, textile sculptures, video art, animation and digital collages. Alisa was a member of the Tagil art group SECONDHAND from 2013 to 2016. In 2018 Alisa was the winner of the programme ‘Vslet at VDNH’ and she opened her personal exhibition ‘Uralskaya Shkura’ in the Hydrometeorology pavilion of VDNH. In the same year Alisa participated in Sondre Green – the Norwegian residence for textile artists.
Artist Feature: SOL BELA MELE
Sol Bela is a 25 years old photographer and Director stablished in Barcelona, Spain. She has wide clientele including Facebook, Adobe, Pinterest, Getty Images, Adidas, Beats By Dre, Polaroid and many more. Sol Bela also collaborated and has been featured in incredibles magazines like The New York Times, I-D Magazine, Vice, Metal Magazine, Paper Magazine, etc. Sol’s work was born because of the lack of cultural references while growing up in the African diaspora and her goal is to create space for POC in media on her creative journey.
CURATOR Feature: DANIELA CIOCCA
In early 2019, Daniela left a fifteen-year career in finance to pursue crypto-trading full-time. She’s since become a prolific NFT trader and art collector.
During the Summer 2021 NFT market boom, Daniela spotted the opportunity that NFTs provided to raise capital for the non-profit sector. This, in addition to a love of art and a desire to support and nurture artists in learning about the revolutionary model that blockchain technology offers them, is the genesis concept behind PLUTONIC.
Black women Herstory-Makers to celebrate today and everyday
Celebrating Women in Black Herstory: change makers who paved the way for liberation.
Written and curated by Social Justice Curator Aisha Becker Burrowes
Artist Feature: Adaeze Okaro
Born and raised in Enugu state, Nigeria, Adaeze Okaro is a self- taught photographer. She centers her work around portraiture, fine art, documentary imagery, and fashion photography Abuja of Nigeria, where she lives. She has been taking photos since March 2017. She began taking fashion portraits with her iPhone 5s at the time. In September of 2018, she started taking photos professionally. That same year of November, she got commissioned for her first project for Dove. Adaeze Okaro loved the arts as a child. Wanted to be an artist as a child but then fell in love her parent’s professions but not enough to be amazing medical doctor as they were. She failed terribly at math & other science related classes. At age 8, she picked up a film camera in her garage at home in Enugu, Nigeria. Owned at first by one of her brothers who had used it too. But when she held it in her hands, she never wanted to let go after. She wanted to take it everywhere with her and take photos with it. She really loved how it worked and has been in love with cameras & any device that can pause time or a moment forever of all sorts ever since. Obiageli’s work features Black women and men in colorful, lucid portraits that are deeply infused with cultural traces of her origins. Inspired by black beauty, love, melancholy & Saturday/ Sunday mornings of watching her fashion killa of a mom getting ready for her Saturday functions and church Sunday service. Adaeze has had her work internationally published and featured by Vogue Italia’s Photo Vogue, WePresent,, It’s Nice That. With her work for companies like Dove, Getty Images, Girlgaze, VSCO, Adobe, Adobe Stock, Adobe Lightroom and more, Obiageli’s work continues to showcase the beauty of Black women while aiming to dismantle barriers and stereotypes surrounding Black women, one photograph at a time.
Feminist Founder: self love tool chest
Nia Patterson is a well-respected Black and Queer mental health advocate, social activist, artist, content creator, podcaster, and business owner. She is the creator behind @TheFriendINeverWanted and artist behind @SelfLoveToolChest. They are also the host and producer of the Body Trauma Podcast you can listen to here and also on Instagram @bodytraumapod. Their work is mainly centered around the Eating Disorder Recovery, Fat Activism, LGBTQIA+, and Self Love communities. Nia is passionate about advocating for people in marginalized bodies and seeks to bring resources to those who do not readily see representation and healthcare for themselves.
Feminist Founder: THE HONEY POT CO.
We caught up with Bea Dixon, the Feminist Founder behind The Honey Pot Co, the first complete plant-derived feminine care system in the market for humans with vaginas. After suffering from a yearlong bout of Bacterial Vaginosis, the formula for what would become The Honey Pot’s washes came to Bea Dixon from a feminine ancestor through a dream. Now that’s what we call centering the divine feminine! Meet the feminist founder revolutionizing the traditionally white male dominated industry and reminding us to treat our vaginal health the same way we treat our physical and mental health.
KATY DEEPWELL INTERVIEW
Our art intern, Emma K, interviewed feminist art critic and theorist Professor Katy Deepwell on her pioneering work to gain visibility for feminist art and her upcoming book “50 Feminist Art Manifestos.”
Feminist Author Feature: Patrisse Cullors
Activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors draws from years of political, social and humanitarian engagement to offer a handbook, a primer, a road map, a 12-step program and a self-care manual all in one. Cullors' intent is to help us toward imagining a new world, one achieved by the abolition of current carceral systems and guided by tenets of transformative justice, a system “rooted in dignity and care for all people.” An Abolitionist's Handbook challenges us to mindfully and powerfully step up, while offering a helping hand.
Music Feature: JOJO ABOT
The Ghanaian-born Los Angeles-based creator JOJO ABOT is a woman of many talents. Engaging with everything from music, visual art, film, photography, poetry, fashion and performance art, JOJO ABOT’s body of work gets to the root of the African spirit and highlights the need to connect with the divine forces operating within us all. Her unique Afrohynosonic sound serves both as a tribute to her native Ghana as well as a link to the divine, with punchy basslines and catchy percussion serving as the vessel to deliver her potent and socially charged lyrics. Her music explores everything from a woman’s right to choose, to the impact of the white man on African peoples, to healing the collective consciousness - which caught the attention of many around the globe including musical legends Ms. Lauryn Hill, Common, and Ebo Taylor.
Artist Feature: Paz Bernstein
Paz Bernstein (1992), made three short films, all surrounding females and feminist subjects. In the past years she has helped organize protests against sexual assaulters, and did an artistic installation against the former prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Currently she is working on her new short film, which is about the collective trauma of women at gynecology appointments, at the "Open Workshop" artist residency in Denmark. In her spare time she illustrates and animates short clips about sexuality, body positivity, and intimate moments. for some people these subjects are considered taboo, so she does her art in a humorous way, in hope that this can make everything easier to digest.
Feminist weekly: icymi 2021 headlines
News clippings and #FeministWins curated by Contributing News Editor Annie Wu Henry. Here are the headlines that defined 2021. ⏬Scroll for #FeministWins at the bottom.
5 African Feminist Books curated by aincre evans
TAKE ACTION: PROTECT Abortion ACCESS
We believe everybody is entitled to reproductive freedom - that includes access to safe and legal abortions. But as the Supreme Court listens to arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and questions the constitutionality of abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy - that right is in jeopardy. If this extreme ban is allowed by the Supreme Court to go unchallenged it will threaten the 50 years of abortion rights protected by the landmark 1973 supreme court ruling in Roe v Wade.
Feminist Weekly December 23
News clippings and #FeministWins curated by Contributing News Editor Annie Wu Henry. From feel good news to headliners keeping you on the pulse. Here is the round up for the week!
WILMA WOOLF IN CONVERSATION WITH ART.FEMINIST
Our art intern Emma K interviewed phenomenal visual artist Wilma Woolf on her conception of feminism, domestic violence in the UK and visual artivism.
Artist Feature: Alina Gross
Alina Gross is an artist from Germany who works between Düsseldorf and Berlin. She focuses her work on bizarre and unusual perspectives of the feminine body. An active participant in body positivity movement, she has published internationally in Vogue and Allure. She has exhibited around the world and is represented by The Curators in New York.