Nashira Banks Selfie and Quotes

 

Overlooked No More: Ana Mendieta, a Cuban Artist Who Pushed Boundaries 

·         “It’s about kind of capturing moments through various forms of documentation. And she takes all these things to the world at large that might not be considered fine arts. She turns them into something intelligent, harrowing and emotional.”

·         “She urged viewers to disregard their gender, race or other defining societal factors and instead connect with the humanity they share with others.”

Mickalene Thomas -Photographed, Collaged and Painted Muses

·         “By selecting women of color, I am quite literally raising their visibility and inserting their presence into the conversation.”

·         “By portraying real women with their own unique history, beauty and background.”

John Berger, Chapters 2+3

·         “Men act and women appear.”

·         “A woman’s presence expresses her own attitude to herself and defines what can and cannot be done to her.”

Understanding Patriarchy

·         “Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation.”

·         “To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.”

The oppositional gaze

·         “Not only will I stare. I want my look to change reality.”

·         “We are afraid to talk about ourselves as spectators because we have been so abused by ‘the gaze’ ”.