Before Double Digits
Bring me back to when
Stars held wishes
Watermelon seeds grew in bellies
Tooth fairies tipped generously.
Hannam Chain or Market World?
My Halmuni liked to cook, so she went to the market more often than just on the weekends. She would take me, so I could learn where to find the ingredients for family recipes, because they weren’t sold at American stores. It was an effort on her part, to bridge the gap between me and a country that I will only ever remember through pictures.
8 Essential Feminist Filmmakers
Despite the biases and challenges that come with being a feminist filmmaker, countless filmmakers throughout history have worked to express themselves and create iconic, paradigm-shifting feminist films. Here are eight of the many filmmakers who we at FEM think everyone should know about.
Artist Profile: Luisa Valenzuela
Luisa Valenzuela is an Argentine novelist and short story writer known for her work produced during the years of dictatorship in Argentina.
Event Review: Roxane Gay Reading of “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body”
Roxane Gay is one of the most important authors alive today. She is the brilliant, unapologetic author of “Bad Feminist,” “An Untamed State,” and “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” books that cover themes like gender, race, fatness, sexuality, pop culture, and politics. This past Monday, she paid a visit to the Hammer Museum to read excerpts from her latest book, “Hunger,” despite revealing during the reading that she personally hates being read to.
Artist Profile: Alok Vaid-Menon
Alok (they/them) Vaid-Menon is a poet, blogger, performer and community organizer whose work challenges white feminism’s notions about identity and activism. Their work explores their personal identity as a gender non-conforming Indian individual as well as sociopolitical analysis and commentary.
Women of Rock Oral History Project: Dismantling the Rock Canon
The Women of Rock Oral History Project is building an archive that can change our preconceived notions of rock and roll icons.
Arts in L.A.: Feb. 12-26
Here are some of the upcoming events the FEM staff is looking forward to.
Six Independent Comics You Need to Read
Comics, despite what anyone tells you, are thriving right now. 2017 saw some incredible comic output and particularly innovative challenges to the traditional rigidity of comic storytelling. Here are some of the best works of the past year.