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... sparked in the 1970s by the Black and Latinx Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) communities in New York. The muses are disenfranchised African American trans women who have faced a long-standing subjugation anchored in America’s history of racial slavery and classed transphobic...

...Elleni (Centime) Zeleke This article examines how the Ethiopian Swedish artist Loulou Cherinet portrays the construction of gender and nation as a balancing act between men and women, local and international forces. In particular, the essay focuses on how she forces her audience to confront...

... the focus of voyeurism and science. But as much as such gazing has disarmed women, so too have women used their nakedness to disarming effect, to claim or reclaim a power that is threatened or lost. Rory Bester, Floating Free, 2003 Dineo Seshee Bopape, excerpt from Silent Performance, 2008. Eighty slides...

... Jarrell, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones- contoured. Both display defiance as they stare out- Hogu, Carolyn Lawrence, Nelson Stevens, and Ger- ward, unabashedly confronting the viewer. In this ald Williams, pursued a “trans-African” style illus- composition depth is difficult to discern, as mul...

... in a way that forecloses singular, fixed interpretations; and depicts two young women who illustrate the potential for body and machine to merge in opposition to masculinist state power. Bekolo combines the oppositional postmodern thought of the cyborg with critical issues of gender, corruption...

... by François Michel of women and women’s issues on a global level, with watercolor landscapes by Léon Dardenne, both while playfully alluding to the mounting pressure part of the Charles Lemaire expedition to Katanga to change this situation. With sly wit and cheeky in 1898 – 1900.11 Baloji...

... trades or as day laborers, and many of 1990, she tore herself from the tree, an the women worked as laundresses and about Africa [over] there. Africa was seamstresses. Many were members of here." In an earlier interview she When I...

... on which drawings couple collaged parts top of each other. The man crouches Susanne Vielmetter of idealized women clipped from fash• down with his head angled up and LOS ANGELES projects ion magazines...

...[ting] on this long coat and some really nice boots. He did some modeling and eventually took Notes his shirt o for more shots, showing o his muscles. 1. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland He took me into his bedroom and showed me a and Kevin McLaughlin...

...Elizabeth Hamilton Fatimah Tuggar creates computer montages that confront technological disparities by presenting rural Nigerian women and children juxtaposed with useless and fantasy-based technological devices. While several scholars contextualize Tuggar’s digital methods and her work’s relevance...

... of various states of disrepair and abandonment. Like the garments will hang like flags or banners of trans- the Kampala photographs, it expands our vision of national capital. Those purchased will enter into the African modernity, but where Bhimji calls on his- circuits of everyday life in Uganda...

... it has lost its inciting effect.”14 As with used by German laborers in the strike waves of the all signs, context matters. 1880s, when it often connoted a readiness to fight. In 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World trans- Image and Metaphor, Hand and Fist formed it into a symbol of solidarity...

... sition of male athletes and nude to be formulated. marked by their own interven• women attendants, and replaces...

...Ahmed Bedjaoui Filmmaker Djamila Sahraoui is a product of the feminization of Algerian cinema that became dominant in the last decade of the twentieth century. More than thirty years since novelist Assia Djebar came onto the scene with her feminist stance, Algerian women are finally rendering...

..., and women adorned with dazzling smell the pictures."1 culture. A photographic image migration in sociocultural trans• was material evidence that one jewelry...

... re- mains inextricably and directly linked to the racial hierarchies built to support the historical specters of trans-Atlantic slavery and Jim Crow the formation of blackness in postwar Britain has historically spo- ken to a unique relationship to the hegemonies of, and after, empire. As Stuart Hall...

...Erin Farrell The exhibition Revisions offers a unique opportunity to see the development of Lalla Essaydi’s ideas as they pertain both to her personal history and to the greater story of Moroccan women. Through analysis of the various collections on view at the Smithsonian National Museum...

... of eight women. Some are I stand inanexhibition spaceamong sitter: Each of the drawings istitled by the in black paint on the gallery walls. the ground of the drawing, isrendered of the gallery. Ahorizon, inline with ciled ground isextended onto the walls...

... in a certain reciproc- that she has called involuntary acting, or, in a proj- ity in Hegel’s dialectic logic: in the apprehension, ect like Ghost Series (1994 – 96), black women pic- as Fanon puts it, of the existence of the other. Such tured in ethnographic postcards, whose facial fea- apprehension, he...

...Laurel Jean Fredrickson This article explores the immersive audio-visual and sculptural art installations in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) of three transnational contemporary women artists with familial ties to former colonies and protectorates. The Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce, MBE...