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https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5602&context=etd

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'These queer people wrote a love letter to their younger self'

Thanks to the feminists of 'De Bovengrondse' a number of street names were replaced by the names of memorable women

The project came about as a result of research carried out by 'De Correspondent' into the street names of Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen. It showed that of all the streets named after a person, 88 percent are made up of men and only 12 percent are named after women. As if 12 percent is not already incredibly few, a large proportion of those women are goddesses or the wives of a famous man. "That is very strange," says Santi van den Toorn, activist for De Bovengrondse, "by changing the street names to women's names, we want to restore that balance and demonstrate in an accessible way that something urgently needs to change.

A team of researchers compiled a list of inspiring women, and in the end they chose 12 names - as a nod to the meagre 12% of women represented on the streets so far. Among these women are artists, sportswomen and activists.

https://www.vice.com/nl/article/zm5m94/in-amsterdam-heet-de-dam-nu-dame-en-het-rokin-de-beyonce-boulevard

'It's nice that we also get such fine substantive feedback'

https://www.vice.com/nl/article/wjwbxn/geen-kinderen-willen-betekent-niet-dat-je-per-se-een-carrieretijger-moet-worden

Photographer Maria Clara Macri took pictures of women in their bedrooms in nine different cities to create a new image of femininity.

"I wanted to give the woman back her nakedness and detach their bodies from sexual objectification," says Maria Clara. "I wanted to take the pictures in their bedrooms, because that's where women can discover themselves in moments of freedom and intimacy. And so Maria Clara left her own room to examine those of other women. She went to New York, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Manchester, Paris, Valencia, Marseille, Milan and Rome and found her models on the street. Almost all of them didn't come from where they were photographed. Maria Clara did not have any preconceived framework: they are women from different backgrounds, with different ethnicities and different sexual preferences. She tried to understand and capture the essence of a new international and global feminine feeling.

What the photography of pixy liao tells us about love

Her photographs are highly praised for her surrealistic view of traditional conventions of heteronormative relationships.

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We have been thinking for a century now that the work of art Fountain, also known as the most influential work of the twentieth century, was conceived by Marcel Duchamp. And all that time we were completely wrong. If we were to believe the Dutch art magazine See All This, the work would be by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a German baroness who was a friend of Duchamp. She died in 1927, because of a gas leak in her house. Duchamp only died 41 years later, when his name was deeply engraved in the canon of modern art history.

https://www.queeringthemap.com

https://visie.eo.nl/artikel/2017/07/strijdbare-christenfeministen

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Do you think art has the ability to invoke change?
Absolutely. Art allows us to let our guard down, invites us into the very home of other cultures, shows us what delights reside there. As humans we can have stark differences culturally, but ultimately we all eat, sleep, love and want to live comfortably with our loved. Art helps to expose the differences that do exist and hopefully desensitize us to the shock of unfamiliarity. The arts are a highly influential and necessary component to inspire progress. It also can really help people to overcome their differences by bringing attention to concerns that would have otherwise gone unknown to them.

Leslie Kern
Feminist city

Alicia Framis - Is my body public?

I was looking for a list of pastors in church.
Absolutely man dominant

Articles I found of the slow movement with the female role within, in this case the Catholic Church. This bends slowly becauseless people go to church because more people indicate that change is needed.