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A Uighur girl from Kashgar. Photograph by William Vandivert. Sinkiang, China, 1943.

For Study for Inner Improvement (1977), a sequence of photographs in which Almeida looks like she is eating blue paint. There is no question that the colour she is consuming is very similar to that of Yves Klein. She had in the past protested at Klein’s use of women as objects in his artworks. At the time of making Study for Inner Improvement, the concept of anthropophagy (cultural cannibalism, the idea of consuming other cultures as a way of asserting independence) was a popular ideology. Almeida’s chewing up of Klein’s blue, a colour he had come to dominate, was a liberating act for women and artists everywhere.

Polar bears are known to be one his favorite subjects, which he captures on ground level, unlike other photographers.His main objective as an artist is to capture wildlife sceneries and adventures, which are rarely experienced by others. 

© Hans Namuth

On #InternationalWomensDay women from 7 different Amazonian Indigenous Nations began a march in Ecuador against new oil blocks in the rainforest. They call on their government and the international community to respect their rights: “We stand for our families our planet and the rights of nature!” “They want to criminalize me for defending my territory.” “Don’t threaten the rights of Indigenous women, uncontacted peoples and activists!” “We women are at the front, demanding that they respect our Indigenous rights, our territory, and our rainforest.” At the very same time, Chinese oil company Andes Petroleum began to enter the Sápara territory in violation of their rights. Sápara representatives are now delivering a formal protest letter in response to this illegal entry onto their lands. Please support these women fighting for the survival of their culture and the protection of the Amazon rainforest. Call the embassy of China and tell them to stay out of Sápara territory. ACT TODAY: http://amazonwatch.org/news/2016/0307-stand-with-amazonian-women “If Andes Petroleum enters Sápara territory, they’ll destroy our people.” - Gloria Ushigua

Salt encroachment, Western Australia 1989

1958 - Dressed in white and carrying ban­ners ins­cri­bed with their demands, Vietnamese women gather in orderly demonstration in front of the city hall of Saigon to demand equal rights with men. Some 50.000 women made March 25 their « Day » in the fight for equal suf­frage. The banner read : « To reconstruct the coun­try Vietnamese women must be libe­ra­ted » (AP wire photo).

In the mid 1970s, Jannis Kounellis began creating installations that consist of pieces of statuary stacked in doorways or on tables and shelves to represent a breakdown of cultural coherence. Untitled evokes the fragmented state of post-World War II Europe.

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Transgender artist James Helenski explores the role of the body as a tool in shaping society’s concepts of gender, sex, and sexuality. Their most recent photography series examine the ways that language is used as a tool for oppression within our own language and the ways in which they become manifest emotionally, psychologically, and physically.

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Chöd practitioner from The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet’s Lost Paradise, by Ian Baker.

The Gender of Sound, Anne Carson (via hagiographiies)