Something Fun
for your eyes, heart, and mind.
🎨Meet Vivian Suter, the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs and mud: She was ignored for decades, but now Suter has been rediscovered as a pioneering eco-artist. Journalists from The Guardian met her, and her 97-year-old collagist mum, in the wilds of Guatemala.
🇮🇹And while we’re on the topic of art… Some great news from Italy. The Venice Biennale, the world’s biggest art festival—with more than a century of history behind it—has named Cecilia Alemani (currently the director and chief curator of the High Line’s art program in New York) head of its 2021 edition. That makes Cecilia one of five women ever to have been selected to curate an edition of the Biennale, and she is the first woman to hail from the Biennale’s home country to serve as artistic director.
👣There were many young women who stood for climate justice before Greta. Severn Cullis-Suzuki is one of them: in 1992, when she was just 12, Severn warned the world about the environmental crisis.
🏆Actress Awkwafina makes Golden Globes history. She is the first performer of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe Award in a lead actress film category, and only the sixth woman of Asian descent to be nominated in the lead actress in a musical or comedy category.
🎤Equally notable from the Golden Globes this year was actress Michelle William’s speech which covered everything from women’s right to vote to reproductive health. Here’s my favourite part: "To choose when to have my children and with whom, when I felt supported and able to balance our lives as all mothers know that the scales must and will tip towards our children. Now I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God or whoever you pray to that we live in a country founded on the principles that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours. So, women 18 to 118, when it is time to vote please do so in your self-interest. It's what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them but don't forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let's make it look more like us."
👑Empowering workshop alert: For any of you in Germany or who plan to be in Berlin this month (or who just want to read about some of the amazing opportunities for self-empowerment out there), do check out this amazing workshop on “drilling” organized by Driller Queens. A quick snippet of their workshop on Jan 25th: “Want to learn how to use a drill? Would you like us to de-mystify what’s hiding in your walls and show you how to avoid pipes and cables? Want hands-on practice, in a beautiful workshop with experienced instructors on hand? We’ve got you.”
📚Still looking for some "new year, new me" reads?? Here are de-toxifying suggestions for you: the top 10 books on toxic masculinity. And for those who might be wondering what exactly is "toxic masculinity" here's some help!
💡Fascinating article on breast pumps, their history, why care about the topic, but mostly, why it's such a problematic and urgent one to address: “Medela launched the iconic (and, to some, cruelly named) Pump in Style in 1996, yet the technology has largely remained the same for the past 60 years.”
🧠Brain food: Put your ass where your heart is at.
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