The Bump It Mafia
The Bump It Mafia is a group of women who came together with an interest in printmaking and representing strong, intelligent women. Bump It Mafia is a celebration of womanhood in printmaking and highlighting the importance of camaraderie and community not just amongst women, but amongst all artists of all backgrounds.
For Women In Hollywood, Things Are Only Getting Worse
Sure, cinema and television are still full of shallow, dated representations of women
Re: Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry
Interesting points made by jazzylittledrops. The reblogged write-up is a response to Dove’s recent commercial (which we reblogged the photos to a few days ago). I only saw the photos on tumblr initially but have since gone back and watched the commercial.
Jazzy makes some strong points about what Dove chose to reinforce as positive and negative descriptors (why does a round face and freckles denote decreased beauty?), the lack of diversity of the main participants, and the approval of beauty being the most valuable trait in a woman.
I have my own thoughts on the commercial that expand beyond just the issue of beauty and physical appearance (such as the influence of perception and the male gaze and why I would even let a brand that wants my money tell me how I should look at my life), but I’m more interested in learning the responses of other people on the commercial!
-Cat
So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts…
Leading Men Age, Leading Women Don’t | Vulture
There are more charts if you click through.
I’m so glad this info graphic is going around, because so many people don’t realize how ageism and misogyny play hand in hand and how the sexualization of young girls play into this.
THIS.
(via fromthefloorboards)
Where Are All The Women At Coachella?
The festival seems like it’s consistently dominated by male performers
Dove had an FBI-trained sketch artist draw women based on how they saw themselves versus how others saw them.
(via fromthefloorboards)
Beef over female rocket scientist’s obit prompts Times to change it
“Yvonne Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system for satellites in the early 1970s and received a National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2011. Yet her New York Times obituary, published in the newspaper on Sunday, begins like this:
She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. “The world’s best mom,” her son Matthew said.
But Yvonne Brill, who died on Wednesday at 88 in Princeton, N.J., was also a brilliant rocket scientist, who in the early 1970s invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.”
Prints Over Pies: Bump It Mafia uses printmaking for feminist activism in Richmond
Megan Zalecki at Style Weekly in Richmond, VA did a write up of the Bump It Portfolio that is currently showing at Studio Two Three!
Bump It Mafia Portfolio at Studio Two Three in Richmond, Virginia!
The show will run through March 29th. Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1:00-4:00 pm
1617 W. MAIN ST. RICHMOND, VA 23220 ], Gallery Hours: M.W.F 12:00-4:00pm.
![fuckyeahfeminists:
feminist-space:
girljanitor:
Steve Bowler tweeted a photo of an assignment that his 8-year-old daughter’s teacher said she did incorrectly. The homework assignment had a list of toys or activities, and the kids were supposed to categorize them based on whether they were for boys, girls, or both, with equal numbers in each box. The assignment takes for granted the gendering of toys, and that there is a “correct” answer to the question of which gender they are appropriate for.
Bowler’s daughter did the assignment differently. After placing 3 items in the “boys” category and 2 in the “girls” group, she made additional boxes to add more things in the “both” column.
But at the bottom, the teacher notes that the assignment wasn’t done correctly. The point of the assignment is to categorize; the implicit message — that boys and girls are different types of people who like different types of things — isn’t questioned. A child sees this list of items and doesn’t gender them in the way the lesson took for granted; the reaction wasn’t to acknowledge her innovation and perhaps question the gendering, it was simply to say she did it wrong.
Bowler, for the record, said he was proud his daughter failed the assignment and just wished she’d done even worse on it.
via sociological images
[some gender-related bullshit removed.]
I’d be at the school having a giant argument with the teacher.
This is the most ridiculous assignment. I would be so confused by it because I definitely had Matchbox cars, LEGOs, AND Erector sets as a child.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdpb0u3Wfy1rvmzslo1_250.jpg)
