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Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch artist interested in photographing subjects in new and profound ways. She is one of the main artists I decided to research because of the amount of photographs she made that focused on women of all different types of ages, sizes and races. In this sense, her artwork is a feminist act in which she showcases women as they are, without any sense of commodification, oversexualization or expectations placed on them. Feminism is about accepting people as they are, without seeing any one person as better. In this piece, the subject is a female dressed in a black bathing suit, with an anklet on, her medium length dark hair. The artist does not reveal much, but at the same time, she reveals the girl’s self consciousness in the way that she is posed. In this series, the people are gazing directly at the audience. These young subjects are almost bare, showing themselves to the audience. It seems as though there is no camera in front of them. There is nothing in between ...

Ana Mendieta’s works are ethereal combinations of body, nature and the relationships that we have with the Earth. She has created many feminist pieces that further relate to womenand their connection with the Earth and others. One of the most poignant and feminist art pieces that I came across in my research was Ana Mendieta’s Untitled (Rape Scene) which was a response to a rape case that occurred in the Iowan university campus she attended. According to the Tate it was a: Response to a brutal and highly publicized rape and murder of a nursing student, Sara Ann Otten, by another student in March 1973. The following month Mendieta invited her fellow students to her apartment where, through a door left purposefully ajar, they found her in the position recorded in this photograph, which recreated the scene as reported in the press. Some time later, Mendieta recalled that her audience ‘all sat down, and started talking about it. I didn’t move. I stayed in position about an hour. It rea...

04/27/16 playlist LINK stream WRGP A special playlist celebrating my LAST show on air!! s/o to everyone who has tuned in & supported <3 Childbirth – Women’s Rights Courtney Barnett – Are You Looking After Yourself HINDS – Chili Town Girlpool – Before The World Was Big SALES – Big Sis Mr Twin Sister – I Want A House Chastity Belt – Time To Go Home Julia Holter – How Long? St. Vincent – Just The Same But Brand New Tennis – Petition Daughter – To Belong Lykke Li – Little Bit Sucre – Young and Free Peach Kelli Pop – Heart Eyes Upset – Glass Ceiling CocoRosie – God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me Koko Beware – Devil In His Heart Penny & The Quarters – You and Me Viudas E Hijas De Roque Enroll – Lollipop Tegan and Sara – Goodbye, Goodbye Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me Le Tigre – Mediocrity Rules (Live) Honeyblood – Super Rat Wolf Alice – Bros Swell Season – Falling Slowly Aerolineas Federales – Soy Una Punk Jeanette – Corazón de Poeta tUnE-yAr...

04/19/16 playlist LINK stream WRGP A special playlist celebrating my penultimate show on air!! The Julie Ruin – I Decide Savages -T.I.W.Y.G Bleached – I’m All Over the Place Colleen Green – Things that Are Bad For Me (Part 1) Wet – Don’t Wanna Be Your Girl Babes – ATMO Belle Mare – Dark Of My Evening Sofie Winterson – I Only Wanted You Gracie and Rachel – Go Eskimeaux – Power Violents – Blush Sales – Vow The Jensens – Sick Sad World Loveletting – This World The Tontons – Pony Sara Hartman – Monster Lead Me Home Emily Wells- Mama’s Gonna Give You Love Speedy Ortiz – Pioneer Spine Ex Hex – Radio On Chastity Belt – IDC Tacocat – Dana Katherine Scully Lucy Dacus – I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore The Prettiots – Move to LA Sweet Spirit – Take Me To A Party Molly Nilsson – I Hope You Die Potty Mouth – The Bomb Chastity Belt – Drone WALL – Cuban Cigars The Beverlys – Kissing with Braces Sleater-Kinney – Hey Darling The Coathangers – Excuse Me? DILLY DALLY – I...

04/12/16 playlist LINK stream WRGP A special playlist celebrating rad songs by riot grrrls from some fantastic films. Lesley Gore – You Don’t Own Me from First Wives Club Doris Day – Que Sera, Sera from Girl, Interrupted, Heathers Judy Garland – Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire – S’ Wonderful from Funny Face Carol Channing – Before the Parade Passes By from Hello, Dolly! The Supremes – The Shoop Shoop Song from Mermaids Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer from My Best Friend’s Wedding Dusty Springfield – Son of A Preacher Man from Pulp Fiction The Mamas & The Papas – Got A Feelin’ from Girl, Interrupted Sisters are Doing It For Themselves from the First Wives Club Patti Labelle – Lady Marmalde from Moulin Rouge Aretha Franklin – Respect from Two Weeks Notice Irene Cara – Flash Dance What A Feeling from Flash Dance Madonna – Like A Prayer from Never Been Kissed Frou Frou – Let Go from Garden State Dolly Parton – 9 to 5 fro...