April 22, 2012
Names are powerful and political. The act of naming is consistently informed by larger structures of power and hierarchy. On April 5th, Yale Pride held the event “Reclamation! Taking Back, Giving …
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April 9, 2012
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has a long and troubled history of under-representing female artists. In 1970, Yoko Ono staged a performance piece at the museum in which a man wearing a sandwich …
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By JESS MCHUGH and ANDREW WAGNER
April 8, 2012
Writer Jess McHugh talked with Ecofeminism Week speaker Lisa Gross ’04. Gross is the founder of The Boston Tree Party, an urban agriculture project that plants apple trees throughout …
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February 23, 2012
Since her earliest records, M.I.A. has maintained a Third World, slightly anarchist political aesthetic that dabbles in postcolonial perspectives. Her latest music video, “Bad Girls,” sticks to that style, imagining a desolate Middle Eastern …
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February 14, 2012
As part of sex week, Gail Dines, a professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender studies, as well as chair of American Studies at Wheelock College, gave a talk on the dangers of pornographic culture. …
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