Fabulous Feminist Photos From Flickr
I’ve been scouring Flickr a lot lately and after seeing all of the great feminist imagery decided to do a feature here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them and feel free to reply with links to your favorites.
I’ve been scouring Flickr a lot lately and after seeing all of the great feminist imagery decided to do a feature here on the blog. I hope you enjoy them and feel free to reply with links to your favorites.
If you are an avid follower of the art world, you’ve no doubt heard the recent talk about how women are looked at as being lesser artists than men. Female artists make up a very small percentage of the art in museums and galleries and, just like almost every other professional field, earn significantly less money than their male counterparts. This is an issue that many women and men in the art community are recognizing and trying to correct. However, at least one critic has opposing views on the topic.
This is a new vector illustration made for a challenge at a design forum I just joined. The challenge theme was LSD and I had a great image drawn out of robert (in just black and white line art) with the tabs and words in the bottom corner (where they are here). However, when I tried to save it I was informed that Illustrator didn’t have enough memory to complete the task and it just shut down. I had been saving as I went along but apparently none of them actually worked so I lost the whole thing! So I made this one in Xara, which I prefer to Illustrator, however it doesn’t have as many features which is why I was trying to learn Illustrator.
Another in the “Original Women” series called “Silence is Deadly”. Far too often women have so much to contribute but hold back because they’ve been taught that “polite girls” don’t speak up. The silence is killing us, we all need to learn to use our voices in any way we can. Blogs, zines, art, poetry, music… it doesn’t matter the medium, just make your voices heard!!!

