Examining Lloyd’s reframing of her photographs in the new context of social media, Ruocco discusses her practice as feminist auto-citation.
...Critical Reflection
Always radical, always engaged, always personal. Either scholarly or polemic writing that engages with feminist visual culture and feminist theory and history from a contemporary perspective. Our authors provide ground for reassessment of existing paradigms or subversive recuperation and reinterpretation.
The author ponders how the intertwining of gender and race reconfigures the dynamics of power in the photographic coverage of conflict.
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Addressing the criticism of Maïwenn and her work, Tataroglu conducts a feminist and post-colonial examination of her directorial output.
...Comparing two performance artists, Fox reflects on the complex dynamic of resistance vs. vulnerability in the face of hate crimes.
...Moore argues that Sex Education is a young adult text revealing the power of feminist self-portraiture to disrupt ableism and rape culture.
...Esmaeilzade analyses the self-expressive art of the Jina uprising as a significant tool for protesting the systemic oppression of Iranian women.
...In the word obsessed with data profiling, O’Connor creates a metadata catalogue of her feminist readings to develop a radical self-portrait.
...Exploring Japanese women’s photography, Cavazzuti argues that the use of self-portraiture reveals a shared need to make a political statement.
...Bottomley examines participatory design in queer football communities as a form of collective self-portraiture and resistance.
...Li examines how Sophie Kahn’s use of transformative materials and glitch aesthetics reshapes contemporary women’s self-portraiture.
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WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey