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Feminist Pornography
How women fought misogyny in the underground press
According to most accounts, the first generation of underground newspapers was very misogynist. Many of these articles began to appear between 1964 and 1967, just before Second Wave feminism took hold. Even though most of these…
A nunsploitation film guilty of pleasure from the director of “Basic Instinct”
Lest someone think Paul VerhoevenThe latest shocker was intended to be a serious look at sexuality in church service, with the film's promotional poster plastered around the cannes film festival - or "Benedetta"bowed in competition -…
Review of “Benedetta”: the film of Nunsploitation by Paul Verhoeven
Lest anyone thinks Paul Verhoeven's latest shocker was meant to be a serious look at sexuality in church service, the film's promotional poster plastered around the Cannes Film Festival - where 'Benedetta' bowed in competition -…
Guggenheim’s “Romantic Songs” Confront the Irony of Feminist Art and Emotional…
In 1943, Hilla Rebay commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a "temple for the spirit" to house the Solomon R. Guggenheim art collection; this weekend, a feminist performance by artist Ragnar Kjartansson will transform the museum into a…
Critique of “The man who hated women”: the reign of the censor
In 1873, a new federal law prohibited the distribution and promotion by the United States Postal Service of "obscene, obscene or lascivious" material. The legislation covered not only dirty postcards and sex toys, but also…
Ask it – Pakistan
Last year a short clip by comedy trio Muriel She's Asking For It became the most watched BBC3 video on Facebook and Twitter, totaling 45 million views in just 10 days. It shows two British boys in a cafe as one of them puts a local tabloid…
Are countries keeping the promise of the Violence and Harassment Convention?
On this day of 2019, labor, feminist and human rights allies celebrated the adoption by the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the Violence and Harassment Convention (N ° 190). This historic international standard called on member…
Russian artist Yulia Tsvetkova, who faces jail for publishing feminist cartoons, goes on hunger…
Artist and activist Yulia Tsvetkova faces criminal charges for posting pornography
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Yulia Tsvetkova, a…
We must talk about pornography
CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses multiple forms of trauma, including sexual violence and assault, abuse and harassment, and the effects of that trauma on mental health.Break the silence was a bugle call of 20th century feminist…
Yulia Tsvetkova goes on hunger strike to demand public trial
Yulia Tsvetkova on an iPad on July 16, 2020. Ulf Mauder / photo alliance via Getty Images
In mid-April, it was reported that Yulia Tsvetkova, a Russian feminist artist, was on trial over charges that she distributed pornography.!-->…