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Sexuality & Art

Equador: Photo series shines light on the abuse women suffer at illegal ‘conversion therapy’ clinics

Ecuadorian artist Paola Paredes has created a photo series, titled “Until You Change“, to protest against the existence of underground centers intended to “cure” homosexuality in Ecuador. Read more

Günes Terkol: re-imagining the feminine

Turkish artist Güneş Terkol challenges feminine imaginaries. She departs from personal or collective histories shared by women at workshops  organized in the context  of   her creative process.  For example, embroidering, a [...] Read more

The art of ‘dreaming”: Brief notes on an exhibition

by Sonia Corrêa Last week,  in Rio, I visited an exhibition of drawings, painting, and sculptures produced by persons belonging to the ‘first nations’ of Australia. I was both dazzled [...] Read more

Naked: the art of Ren Hang

On February, 24th, 2017 the young Chinese artist Ren Hang left us.  His legacy is a vast portfolio of delicate images of androgynous juvenile bodies that has attracted the attention [...] Read more

Grada Kilomba: decolonizing thinking, performing knowledge

Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese writer, scholar and artist who enacts and delivers decolonial knowledge by weaving relations between gender, race and class. She is a professor at the Humboldt [...] Read more

Alia Farid: Memory, space, movement

In November,  2016, SPW section on Art&Sexuality  featured the work of Kátia Sepúlveda,  one of the 46    women  selected  for the 32th São Paulo Art Bienal.   In January  2017,  we [...] Read more

Shibboleth: lethal cracks

By Sonia Corrêa Searching for works of art that would reflect the dystopian state of world affairs in January 2017,   I recalled walking over the (already filled) crack wide opened [...] Read more

These photos show the courage and tragedy of LGBTQ life in Peru

Andrew Mroczek and Juan José Barboza-Gubo created a series of photographs called “Canon.” It’s a symbolic name — a way of re-writing traditional laws in Peru to include the marginalized LGBTQ community, [...] Read more

Looking at How Abortion Restrictions Endanger Women’s Lives

In 2006, a Polish woman named Justyna heard a rumor about a new abortion pill. The thirty-year-old mother of three was eleven weeks along in a new pregnancy, and her marriage [...] Read more

Emergence, an Artistic Journal of Women and Gender non-conforming Africans

Women have a lot of interesting stories. So many cool, sad, sexy, funny and strange stories. Stories that inspire and stories that make you shake your head and roll your [...] Read more

Katia Sepúlveda: domestic devices

The 32th São Paulo Bienal, which ends in December, features works by 81 artists from 33 countries among which 46 are women. This strong presence of women artists from various [...] Read more

New Orleans prostitutes: 1912

Portrait photography is a work of collaboration. These women are posing as they want to be seen—wearing furs or prized clothes, smiling with a pet dog, lying like one of [...] Read more

Space to abort: by Mujeres Creando

Mujeres Creando is a Bolivian feminist collective devoted to political street art interventions. They do not define themselves as artist but as  political activists. Their acts and performances are always [...] Read more

Proudly trans in Turkey: a Gabrielle Le Roux Project

Feminist and queer art was part of the 13th International AWID Forum in Costa do Sauípe, Bahia Sep 8th-11th , 2016). Gabrielle Le Roux was one the many artists whose [...] Read more

Desacralizing: Paula Rego’s Abortion Pastels

When,  in 1998,  the proposal to legalize abortion in Portugal was defeated in a first referendum, the acclaimed painter Paula Rego produced a blasting series of ten pastels that portray [...] Read more
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