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Bookstore Turns Books By Men Backward To Put Women Authors At The Forefront

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Forget a year of reading women: What about straight-up hiding men’s words from view?


OK, that’s not exactly what Cleveland’s Loganberry Books has done to celebrate Women’s History Month, but it’s close. For two weeks in March, the store has flipped male-authored books around, filing them spine-in on their bookshelves to hide their titles from view.


The experiment, called “Illustrating the Gender Gap in Fiction,” kicked off on March 1, when the store hosted “a live performance art project where we will shelve the works by men in our LitArts room backwards.” 


”I was truly shocked by the effects of this exercise, and it does make me curious about other genres in the store,” owner Harriett Logan told The Huffington Post via email. “I have been ― or thought I have been ― a conscientious book buyer and a supporter of women’s works. It’s hard to tell that from the shelves.” 



Loganberry Books carries a mix of new and used books, both recently published and of older vintage. The classics and older favorites, Logan noted, have a more masculine bias than popular new books. “I am certain the ratio has improved in my generation, and Dickens, James and Trollope take up an awful lot of space,” she wrote, “but I took an overview count of the 7,500 works of fiction we worked on [excluding genre and mass-market], and female authors represent approximately 37 percent.”


This statistic inspired one strategy for improving the store’s gender balance: “One thing I think I can improve on is keeping recent backlist titles of novels by women in stock,” she told HuffPost. “The 5-10 year titles that haven’t made their way into my used inventory yet need more representation.”


The concept of the art piece was intended to visually capture, in a quick and striking way, the continuing dominance of male-authored works in the cultural consciousness. It was also intended to force reader attention to the female-authored books that remained spine-out, with authors and titles on display. Though some criticized the effort as sexist, Logan sees it more as a thought-provoking experiment that reminds readers that the ubiquity of men in the literary world has persisted “not by talent, choice, or even popularity, but mostly through industry favoritism, social opportunity, and habit.”



Why not just celebrate great women authors through special, prominent displays, panels or readings? Well, Logan pointed out, “I have been bookselling for over 20 years, and every year I have taken the time and effort to highlight women’s works for Women’s History Month in March.”


She hoped to try something this March that “would highlight not just the good works by women, but also the disparity in the industry.” Though some have bridled at male authors’ names being turned to the back for two weeks, it’s undeniable that this is a blink of an eye compared to the centuries during which women were denied access to education, prevented from publishing or simply shamed for pursuing literary careers. The results of those generations of female suppression speak for themselves ― in the lopsided fiction display at Loganberry Books.


“If this exercise encourages people (myself included) to ask questions and to improve our habits, I think we have learned something and it is successful,” Logan told HuffPost. “The novels by men will continue to be bought, sold, read and loved, but hopefully the women’s words will gain an extra footing on the shelf.”






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25 Photos That Expand Ideas Of What A Muslim Woman Looks Like

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When Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder of Muslim Girl, speaks at conferences and events, she often starts her presentation with a challenge to the audience. 


Al-Khatahtbeh told The Huffington Post that she asks her listeners to take out their cell phones and do a Google Image search for the phrase “Muslim woman.” Often, she said, her audience is shocked to see what comes up ― stereotypical images of women wearing bleak colors, whose faces are hidden behind dark veils. 


Al-Khatahtbeh isn’t surprised. This is the reality the 24-year-old says she’s lived with in post-September 11 America. Growing up, she said she rarely saw images in magazines or in the news that reflected the confidence, intelligence, and diversity of the American Muslim women she saw around her.


“The easiest way to deny someone their humanity is to deny them a representation of themselves in the world around them,” Al-Khatahtbeh said. “That surfaces in a lot of ways ― through feelings of alienation, and also in the way non-Muslims view Muslims.”


But Al-Khatahtbeh is hoping to help change that. On International Women’s Day, Muslim Girl announced a partnership with Getty Images, a photo agency that supplies stock images for advertising companies, newsrooms, and other communication companies around the world.



The first set of stock images to come out of this partnership features millennial American Muslim women doing pretty normal things ― exercising, surfing the internet, chatting and taking selfies.


The 43 photos were taken in Brooklyn, New York, by Jenna Masoud, a young Muslim photographer. Several of the models are friends of the photographer. 



Al-Khatahtbeh said that one of her main goals with the first collection was to showcase racial and spiritual diversity. Some of the Muslim women in shoot wear the hijab, while others do not.


“These are girls that dress, look and act the way me and my friends do,” Al-Khatahtbeh said. “We wanted to show what the lived experience of Muslims girls is genuinely like.”



Pam Grossman, Getty Images’ Director of Visual Trends, said that the partnership with Muslim Girl is part of the company’s wider efforts to diversify its collection of stock images. She said it’s also a response to customers’ needs. 


Grossman said that search stats for the key word search for the terms “Muslim women” and “Muslim” has increased by 83 percent and 107 percent, respectively, over the past year.


“People want to see positive contemporary depictions of all Americans,” Grossman told The Huffington Post. “We’re seeing this incredible age of inclusivity starting to happen in advertising and across the board. Our customers really want these images.” 



Grossman said that the images will be featured on the company’s home page and advertised on their social media channels. Future photo collaborations with Muslim Girl are in the works, as well.


For Al-Khatahtbeh, the most exciting thing about the project is seeing how Muslim girls and women react to having more positive representations of themselves in media.


“That was something I didn’t have when I was a young Muslim girl,”Al-Khatahtbeh. “It’s exciting for us to see ourselves in the world around us.”


Scroll through the slideshow below for 25 of the 43 photos from this Getty Images collection.


This Women’s History Month, remember that we have the power to make history every day. Follow along with HuffPost on FacebookTwitter, and Instagram in March using #WeMakeHerstory.

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J.K. Rowling Expertly Shuts Down The International Women's Day Trolls

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J.K. Rowling launched a pre-emptive strike against Twitter trolls on Wednesday.


As the world geared up to mark International Women’s Daythe Harry Potter author anticipated the trash-tweeters who’d try to belittle the event by asking why there wasn’t a corresponding celebration for men:






Predictably, Rowling’s post received a mixed reaction and enticed some of the trolls to come out of hiding. Here are some of her followers’ favorable replies:














Rowling also recommended some reading for her followers in honor of the day, which applauds achievements of women whilst campaigning for a gender equal world:














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This Women’s History Month, remember that we have the power to make history every day. Follow along with HuffPost on FacebookTwitter, and Instagram in March using #WeMakeHerstory.

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What 1970s Counterculture Can Teach Us About Resistance Today

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“Dressing yourself for yourself is an activist act,” Fayette Hauser told The Huffington Post. “We felt that we were part of the revolution.”


Hauser was a member of The Cockettes, a San Francisco-based commune and creative collective John Waters once described as “hippy acid freak drag queens.” They were recognizable by their threads, which took inspiration from drug-fueled visions, foreign cultures, bygone eras and personal fantasies, amounting to hallucinatory ensembles that served as embodied rejections of mainstream America.


Hauser’s iconic threads are currently on view at New York’s Museum of Art and Design, part of the exhibition “Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture. The show revisits the mind-warping fashions of the 1960s and 1970s that, in defiance of the consumerism-laced American Dream, opted to dream up alternative ways of dressing, protesting and being.


As curator Barbara Paris Gifford explained to HuffPost: “It was about rejecting materialist culture, not spending a lot of money. You could see something in a thrift store or in the trash and see the possibilities of what it could become, how it could express your values. It was about actively creating your own reality, instead of accepting the one that was handed to you.”



Born and raised on the East Coast, Hauser moved to San Francisco in 1968. One year later, she helped bring The Cockettes into being, an avant-garde experimental theatre troupe who, along with performing on stage, became living, breathing manifestations of their transcendent ideals.


The Cockette clan donned flowing facial hair, exaggerated makeup, glitter, jewels, furs, fishnet tights and feather headdresses, a non-categorizable onslaught of garments from a motley range of eras, locales, genders and styles. “We were in various characters of our own creation and imagination,” Hauser said.


“The mainstream was all caught up in trends,” she continued, “and we thought trends were much too shallow a reason to put something on your body, which was sacred. We were having these visions from using psychedelic drugs, and we wanted to visualize them. There was so much creative energy, everyone had gone deep into themselves through psychedelics.”


Another groundbreaking aspect of The Cockette’s living theater was their personification of gender fluidity and gender confusion. “People were embracing the male and the female inside themselves, making outfits that had both sexes in them,” said Hauser. The elaborate ensembles were sometimes dubbed “high drag,” in that they transgressed not only the boundaries of gender but also of reality. As Hibiscus, a founding Cockette, once said: “Instead of dressing in drag, I was dressing more as gods. We were all creating mythic figures.”



The oozing visuals induced by acid and mushrooms served as chief inspirations for artists like The Cockettes, along with countless other countercultural fashionistas who saw their bodies as sites of resistance, including Kaisik Wong; Alex + Lee; Birgitta Bjerke, and Mickey McGowan.


The pioneer of wearable art, Wong was known for his cosmic robes, gowns and headdresses whose metallic, mythical power paid tribute to the past while predicting the future. Bjerke, better known as 100% Birgitta, reportedly went nowhere without a bag of wool and crochet hooks, fashioning kaleidoscopic pastorals from the simplest of means. 


These artists also, however, looked longingly to the past for visual stimuli. “We were very much looking at the past as a thing of beauty,” Hauser said. “The mainstream at the time was only looking forward. They were throwing everything away. We were looking at the past like it was great art, especially the old clothes. We had a large palette to choose from. Victoriana, art nouveau, anything vintage. We were dressing up our fantasies.”



Along with mining other time periods for aesthetic gems, many countercultural visionaries of the ‘60s and ‘70s looked to other cultures, from Peruvian handwoven textiles to dashikis, which were closely associated with the black power movement at the time. This is where things get a little complicated, because, as the photographic documentation makes abundantly clear, most people associating with this particular breed of “counter-couture” were white. 


“Certainly what is happening now with identity, it can come off as feeling colonialist,” curator Gifford offered in response. “But that was not the feeling in this particular time period. It was out of respect, coming from a place of empathy. The movement came from a rejection of American mainstream culture, so there was a search for what is real and what is authentic.” 


Gifford also added that much of the interest in other cultures’ clothing stemmed from the handiwork that was central to their construction. “I think the handmade aspect is at the center of it,” she said. Individuals were procuring handmade skills including sewing, embroidery and crochet, both from their own families and cultures abroad.


Sharing, also, was a central concept to hippie culture, which perhaps helps explain why, for people like Hauser, incorporating aesthetics and traditions from other civilizations felt like a gesture of respect, rather than exploitation. Although the cultural appropriation rampant throughout the show can hardly be excused by good intentions, Gifford and Hauser both continued to stress that the motivation to explore other cultures and stylistic traditions was rooted in admiration. 



The “Counter-Couture” exhibition is now on view in New York City, in a time that bares striking similarities to the setting from which these works emerged. Like the 1960s and 1970s, many Americans today are disheartened with the current state of affairs, distrustful of the government’s agenda, and frightened for the fate of the planet. Gifford spoke of millennials and their revived interest in handmade, spiritual and local alternatives to the mainstream.


Specifically, Gifford referenced “pussy hats” ― the pink, knitted caps that swarmed the streets during the Women’s March in January. Handmade, symbolic, defiant, controversial, the hats alluded to something greater than themselves. “It’s a place to start,” she said. “Deciding that you are going to make something that is going to reflect who you are, what your politics are. And you made it yourself; there is a power in that.”


What contemporary youth can learn from their counterculture predecessors, Gifford says, is how to weave elements of resistance into daily life. “There was a lot of protest [in the 1960s and ‘70s], but also a lot of play,” she said. “Maybe we can use that moving forward, so we’re not always dealing with angry passion that burns out on itself. You want to keep people engaged and involved. How do you do that in the long term?”


The next generation of cultural resistance can also learn from the shortcomings of their predecessors, namely, their failure to address the struggles and fantasies of people of color. The imbalance remains relevant today, with January’s Women’s March raising crucial conversations about which bodies the protest empowered and which it left further alienated. The vanguard of millennial resistance, as the 1970s efforts make plain, must work toward forging a future where women-identified people of all backgrounds have the freedom and safety to indulge their imaginations, play make believe, and build revolutions out of sparkles, yarn and velvet. 


What “Counter-Couture” ultimately reveals, though, is how protest can be made more sustainable when coupled with a generous dose of play. As Gifford said: “How do you not burn out? You make it a lifestyle. I think there is a lot to learn from that.”



“Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture” runs until Aug. 20, 2017 at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. 






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Rupert Grint Is Game To 'Play Along' When Fans Confuse Him For Ed Sheeran

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Rupert Grint is totally fine with being mistaken for fellow famous redhead Ed Sheeran


During a recent appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” the “Harry Potter” star spoke about his resemblance to the “Shape of You” singer.


“It’s kind of 50/50 now,” he said, adding, “If someone stops me I could go either way. I could be Ed or I could be me.” 


Grint then told a story about that one time British singer Leo Sayer saw Grint and thought he was Sheeran. 


“He came up to me and said he loved my music, of course, thinking I was Ed,” said Grint, adding, “I play along.” 


Grint, who appeared in Sheeran’s 2011 “Lego House” music video, has spoken about the doppelgänger situation before. In a 2014 interview with BBC Match of the Day magazine, he expressed similar sentiments. 


People think I’m Ed Sheeran,” he said. “They compliment me on my music career and I just play along with it! It’s never too bad, you get the odd person staring at you but it’s pretty manageable.”


Good to know he has a sense of humor about it. 

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'First Hello' Birth Photos Capture The Emotional Moment Parents Meet Their Babies

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For photographers River Bennett and Bel Pangburn, there’s nothing more magical than the first time parents meet their new baby. That’s why the Australian photographers launched “The First Hello Project” to capture those precious moments. 


Bennett and Pangburn use their birth photography project to document the labor, delivery and postpartum experience ― with a special focus on their tagline: “The first breath. The first touch. The first cry. The first hello.” 



The women primarily photograph mothers in their local Sydney area, but they said they hope to document births in different countries and cultures. 


Both photographers are mothers themselves, as Bennett has three sons ―10-year-old Zion, 7-year-old Rome and 5-year-old Knox ― and Pangburn has a 2-year-old daughter, Sunday. As a result, they know firsthand the power and emotion in that “first hello.” 



“We are always watching for the tear on the father’s face as he meets his child for the first time, or the relief of the mother when she stops laboring,” the photographers told The Huffington Post. “The joy of life is so evident to everyone in that room, so watching and knowing when to click the button requires you to be fully present.”


Keep scrolling to see a sample of stunning birth images from “The First Hello Project.”


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Female And LGBTQ Filmmakers Get An Overdue Moment To Shine In NYC

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A three-day New York festival is putting work by emerging women, LGBTQ and other marginalized filmmakers in the spotlight. 


The New York Premiere Film Festival, which kicks off April 10, will showcase short films, each of which must be no longer than 20 minutes, from all over the world. Each of the films will compete for a $1,000 grand prize, along with a televised debut on New York’s MNN Cable Network. 


Festival co-directors Nelson Moses Lassiter and John Logan created it to “not just to be heard and make a statement, but also to be supportive of one another and our community’s artistic endeavors,” Lassiter said. (You can view the trailer for “Golden Hour,” a queer-themed short which will shown at the festival, above.) 


“The LGBTQ community, women and minority groups play an active role in shaping society, this country and the world... but even with all of this influence and progress we have made, there are people out there who still seek to marginalize us,” he said. “These groups are underrepresented in cinema but have stories that should be told. We need to remind them that we are a part of society and have just as much right to be visible and make our voices heard.”


At the conclusion of the three-day festival, winners for Best Film, Best Performer and Best Director will be chosen. Lassiter said festival organizers are “not specifically looking for socially conscious films, but creative narratives that tell a story from a perspective we rarely see.” The judges will emphasize storytelling over technical expertise, too. “It is that perspective that is going to capture the audience,” he said. “’Tangerine’ was shot on an iPhone, so we know great stories can come from anywhere.”


Ultimately, Lassiter hopes that audiences will leave the New York Premiere Film Festival “inspired and aware that there is so much talent in our community, stories to tell and that there are no limitations to creativity and that anything is possible if you work for it.”


To read more about the New York Premiere Film Festival, head here


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Read The Fierce Letters Women Throughout History Have Written To Call Out Sexism

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How should you spend this International Women’s Day during this Women’s History Month? By reading women’s words!


Now is a time to reflect on the achievements of women and remember the fight for women’s rights. Many celebrants are also participating in a strike, “Day Without a Woman,” which asks that women refrain from paid or unpaid work. The strike comes as a response to the various Women’s Marches in January that gathered women all over the country (and the world) in response to the inauguration of President Donald Trump.




Because not all women can refrain from work, however, many are showing their solidarity by wearing red and shopping less ― and some are displaying support through social media. Letters Of Note, a digital collection of “fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos,” has done just that by sharing empowering letters written by women over Twitter on Wednesday.


They are the epitome of women “not letting the bastards grind them down.”


Take a look below:



















Bonus: You can read a letter from a male feminist, too.






For more on International Women’s Day and what people are doing to celebrate women, head here.

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The Feminist Illustrators Making International Women's Day Look Damn Good

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Wednesday is International Women’s Day, a glorious day devoted to recognizing the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women-identifying people across the world.


Here on HuffPost Arts & Culture, we’re recognizing the supremely gifted women artists who use their creative imaginations to visualize personal truths and potential futures in the universal language of images. Thankfully, they’re generous enough to share their gifts with the rest of us. 


It’s still early in the day, but already Instagram is abuzz with gorgeous illustrations from feminist illustrators worldwide. To which we say, yes, thank you. And more, please.


We’ve compiled some of our favorites below and will update throughout the day. Happy International Women’s Day to all the girls and women and mothers and teachers and activists and artists and fighters and sisters and more. We love you today and every day. 



















❤️HAVE A POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY ❤️

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Happy #womensday ✨

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Today is for all women. Those who live close by, and those in other continents. Women who look like you, and women who don't. This day is to stand hand in hand and support all; strong women, vulnerable women, insecure women, ambitious women, shy women, and women who don't know yet what they want with their lives. Old and young women, sick and healthy women, rich and poor women. Women with a vision, and also women still to develop one. Women who were born with a vulva, and women who weren't born with one. Women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, queer, pansexual, asexual or any other sexual orientation. Women who work full time, and women who stay at home and take care of their families. Women from all kinds of religious backgrounds, and women without a religion. Women of all shapes and sizes, fat or skinny, tall or tiny, with dark or light skin, hairy or bald. Women with or without breasts. Women who suffer from a psychological disorder, a trauma, or those who are otherwise mentally damaged. Women who aren't sure if they identify as a woman. Women who are being suppressed, neglected, or otherwise negatively treated because they are female. We support all of them, because they are human beings. They live together with us in this world. All women are all equally valuable, worthy and deserve to be seen and heard. They need to be loved, accepted and respected. They are human beings, like you and I. Every woman deserves an equal opportunity to grow and develop herself, and have the freedom in choosing what she wants to do. Love all women, because all women are beautiful just the way they are ✨ #thevulvagallery #vulvas #vulvaart #internationalwomensday #women #bodypositive #bodypositivity #genderequality #genderinclusivity #positivity #respecteachother #respect #empathy #humananatomy #selflove #empowerment #youarebeautiful #loveyourself #hildeatalanta

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For Int'l Women's Day all solo books by women are 30% off, and Resist papers are free. Art by Abigail Gray Swartz.

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201 Artists You Should Remember This International Women’s Day

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In honor of International Women’s Day, we are updating an article that originally appeared on our site last year.


Today is International Women’s Day, a day devoted to recognizing the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women across the world. The holiday lands in Women’s History Month, a month devoted to recognizing the contributions of women throughout history. In summary, March 8 is a perfect storm of celebrations geared toward remembering that women ― amid a persisting lack of access to education and positions of power around the globe ― are still fighting for gender parity in the 21st century. 


Throughout the month of March, one American museum in particular, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, is shining a spotlight on the art world and the women artists who have left their mark on history. It has launched a social media campaign dubbed #5womenartists, which asks individuals to publicly recognize five women artists, a feat that’s proven more difficult that it might sound. “If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists?” the NMWA wrote online.


In honor of Women’s History Month, #5womenartists and the shameful underrepresentation of women in museums, galleries and auctions today, we’re recognizing not five, but 201 artists you should remember this International Women’s Day. Last year we celebrated 101 influential women, this year we’re highlighting 201, and next year we’re excited to keep extending the list. 


Remember, this is but a sample ― in no specific order ― of the many, many, many women and non-gender-binary artists who deserve your attention. List your favorites on social media using the hashtag #5WomenArtists. And if you come across an artist you’ve never heard of, we encourage you to look them up online or at a museum near you.



1. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)


2. Judy Chicago (1939- )


3. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)


4. Kara Walker (1969- )


5. Yayoi Kusama (1929- )


6. Shirin Neshat (1957- )


7. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)


8. Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)


9. Mickalene Thomas (1971- )


10. Cindy Sherman (1954- )



11. Maya Lin (1959- )


12. Marlene Dumas (1953- )


13. Eva Hesse (1936-1970)


14. Yoko Ono (1933- )


15. Agnes Martin (1912-2004)


16. Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907)


17. Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)


18. Ruth Asawa (1926-2013)


19. Wangechi Mutu (1972- )


20. Martha Rosler (1943- )



21. Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)


22. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)


23. Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973)


24. Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842)


25. Camille Claudel (1864-1943)


26. Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)


27. Juliana Huxtable (1987- )


28. Rachel Whiteread (1963- )


29. Marina Abramović (1946- )


30. Ana Mendieta (1948-1985)



31. Judith Leyster (1609-1660)


32. Carolee Schneemann (1939- )


33. Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)


34. Carrie Mae Weems (1953- )


35. Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985)


36. Alice Neel (1900-1984)


37. Betye Saar (1926- )


38. Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)


39. Faith Ringgold (1930- )


40. Annie Leibovitz (1949- )



41. Lorna Simpson (1960- )


42. Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945)


43. Selma Burke (1900-1995)


44. Barbara Kruger (1945- )


45. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950- )


46. Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998)


47. Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)


48. Hannah Höch (1889-1978)


49. Ann Hamilton (1956- )


50. Francoise Gilot (1921- )



51. Adrian Piper (1948- )


52. Leonor Fini (1907-1996)


53. Alma Thomas (1891-1978)


54. Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)


55. Diane Arbus (1932-1971)


56. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968)


57. Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989)


58. Julie Mehretu (1970- )


59. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (1977- )


60. Tracey Emin (1963- )



61. Jenny Saville (1970- )


62. Catherine Opie (1961- )


63. Mariko Mori (1967- )


64. Guan Daosheng (1262-1319)


65. Cecily Brown (1969- )


66. Belkis Ayon


67. Kiki Smith (1954- )


68. Nan Goldin (1953- )


69. Maren Hassinger (1947- )


70. Joan Jonas (1936- )



71. Marisol Escobar (1930-2016)


72. Agnes Denes (1938- )


73. Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)


74. Orlan (1947- )


75. Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011)


76. Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012)


77. Toyen (1902-1980)


78. Romaine Brooks (1874-1970)


79. Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917-1990)


80. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)



81. Tania Bruguera (1968- )


82. Pushpamala N (1956- )


83. Laurie Anderson (1947- )


84. Yael Bartana (1970- )


85. Greer Lankton (1958- )


86. Ghada Amer (1963- )


87. Vivian Maier (1926-2009)


88. Isa Genzken (1948- )


89. Carol Rama (1918-2015)


90. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (1985- )



91. Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (1881-1962)


92. Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)


93. Cady Noland (1956- )


94. Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975)


95. Candy Darling (1944-1974)


96. Bharti Kher (1969- )


97. Nellie Mae Rowe (1900–1982) 


98. Judy Baca (1946- )


99. Zackary Drucker (1983- )


100. Lee Krasner (1908-1984)



101. Vaginal Davis (1969- )


102. Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015)


103. Lynn Hershman Leeson (1941- )


104. Howardena Pindell (1943- )


105. Simone Leigh (1967- )


106. Emma Sulkowicz (1992- )


107. Laura Wheeler Waring (1877-1948)


108. Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890-1960)


109. Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944)


110. Feliza Burztyn (1933-1982)



111. Aloise Corbaz (1886-1964)


112. Lee Godie (1908-1994)


113. Leticia Parente (1930-1991)


114. Aline Kominsky Crumb (1948- )


115. Phoebe Gloeckner (1960- )


116. Alison Bechdel (1960- )


117. Kay Sage (1898-1963)


118. Dora Maar (1907-1997)


119. Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998)


120. Penny Slinger (1947- )



121. Renate Bertlmann (1943- )


122. Eleanor Antin (1935- )


123. Laurie Simmons (1949- )


124. Barbara Chase-Riboud (1939- )


125. Judith Bernstein (1942- )


126. Betty Tompkins (1945- )


127. Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015)


128. Hannah Wilke (1940-1993)


129. Valie Export (1940- )


130. Carmen Herrera (1915- )



131. Sally Mann (1951- )  


132. Ultra Violet (1935-2014)


133. Pat Ward Williams (1948-)


134. Stella Snead (1910-2006)


135. Laura Wheeler Waring (1877–1948)


136. Anita Steckel (1930-2012)


137. Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890–1960)


138. Cao Fei (1978- )


139. Augusta Savage (1892-1962)


140. Senga Nengudi (1943- )



141. Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907)


142. Adelaide Labille-Guiard (1749-1803)


143. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927)


144. Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943)


145. Clara Tice (1888-1973)


146. Mina Loy (1882-1966)


147. Beatrice Wood (1893-1998)


148. Suzanne Duchamp (1889-1963)


149. Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952)


150. Anna Maria Maiolino (1942- )



151. Mierle Laderman (1939- )


152. Sheila Hicks (1934- )


153. Lee Bontecou (1931- )


154. Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997)


155. Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)


156. Graciela Iturbide (1942- )


157. Lise Sarfati (1958- )


158. Jo Ann Callis (1940- )


159. Deanna Lawson (1979- )


160. Laura Aguilar (1959- )



161. Carmen Argote (1981- )


162. Esther Ferrer (1937- )


163. Renate Eisenegger (1949- )


164. Françoise Grossen (1943- )


165. Marilyn Minter (1948- )


166. Lorraine O’Grady (1934- )


167. Beatriz Milhazes (1960- )


168. Zanele Muholi (1972- )


169. Coreen Simpson (1942- )


170. Chakaia Booker (1953- )



171. Tschabalala Self (1990- )


172. Mona Hatoum (1952- )


173. Marilyn Nance (1953- )


174. Xu Lele (1955- )


175. Rosemarie Trockel (1952- )


176. Pegeen Vail Guggenheim (1925-1967)


177. Nikki St. Phalle (1930-2002)


178. Jenny Holzer (1950- )


179. Joyce Wieland (1930-1998)


180. Samella Lewis (1924- )



181. Renee Cox (1960- )


182. Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625)


183. Elizabeth Peyton (1965- )


184. Valerie Maynard (1937- )


185. Vija Celmins (1938- )


186. Pan Yuliang (1895-1977)


187. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961)


188. Maya Hayuk (1969- )


189. Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)


190. Xiao Lu (1982- )



191. Nalini Malani (1946- )


192. Bridget Riley (1931- )


193. Swoon (1978- )


194. Pablita Velarde (1918-2006)


195. Lygia Clark (1920-1988)


196. Marta Minujín (1943- )


197. Judith Scott (1943-2005)


198. Zilia Sánchez (1926- )


199. Minnie Evans (1892-1987)


200. Lisa Yuskavage (1962- )


201. Justin Vivian Bond (1963- )


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'Feud' Reminds Us 50-Year-Old Struggles For Hollywood Women Are Still Exhaustingly Relevant

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Warning: Small spoilers for “Feud” below. But let’s be honest, can you spoil history?


By the time Joan Crawford and Bette Davis started work together on 1962’s “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” they were starving for roles.


In the ‘30s and ‘40s, they had been Hollywood stars. But by the early ‘60s, they were in their 50s ― ancient by Hollywood’s standards of women then and still today. “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” represented the best script they’d been offered in ages. Oscar potential, even. 


The trouble was, the pair couldn’t stand each other. In FX’s “Feud,” which chronicles the real-life rivalry between Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Davis (Susan Sarandon) surrounding production of the film, the two women are forced to reckon with a conflict fueled for years, in large part, by increasingly limited offers for women their age.


“You know how it goes,” laments a beautician working a thick cream into Joan’s neck in the first episode. “Men age, they get ‘character.’ Women age, they get lost.”  



“Feud,” created by Ryan Murphy of “American Horror Story” fame, is not shy about its message: Hollywood was lousy with ageist, sexist thinking back in the day. As studio boss Jack Warner (Stanley Tucci) observes, scotch may get better as time passes, but “broads, they just get sour,” a line that could just as easily been delivered in 2017. (If behind closed doors.)


There are many moments that illustrate the continued sexism of Hollywood, but perhaps none better than one quietly moving scene between Joan’s housekeeper-slash-body-woman Mamasita (Jackie Hoffman) and the director’s assistant Pauline (Alison Wright). 


At a time when there were fewif any, women directors of “talkie” films, Pauline wants a chance at the helm ― but has faced rejection. Mamasita imparts encouragement with information from U.S. Census reports she’d read in the library, telling her dejected friend how women had recently begun to outnumber men in the U.S. population.


“Should someone tell the men they’re going extinct?” Pauline jokes.


“Not extinct,” she is corrected, “Minority.” Men “have shorter lives because they are less strong, and many die in war,” she said, explaining their decreasing number and suggesting Hollywood would soon have to reckon with the reality of audience demographics.


“Studios will have obligations to make half of stories about women, by women, for women,” Mamasita says. “It only makes economic sense. Keep your head up. Your day is coming.”


But 50 years after the events in the show, those predictions have yet to manifest. Pauline ― a studio insider and experienced hand on set ― might have just as hard a time directing her film in 2017. Crawford and Davis might have just as tough a time finding meaty roles. And that’s what makes watching “Feud” feel so familiar. 


Most films are still made about men, by men and for, well, everyone, through lack of other options. Women made up just 4 percent of those who directed 1,000 popular films from 2007 to 2016. While women can now find more work in short-form and independent films, they’re still not trusted, it seems, with the wide-release fare that costs studios tens of millions of dollars. Pauline’s day may come, but it hasn’t yet. 



Studies consistently show a wide gap between the number of speaking roles allotted women and men in popular Hollywood films, too. 


For older actresses, the picture is bleaker still ― particularly in lead roles like the ones Crawford and Davis tackled in “Baby Jane.”


Characters past age 60, regardless of gender, are underrepresented, according to a recent study, but that’s especially true for women. And over half a century after “Baby Jane” debuted to critical acclaim, older lead characters are still very rare in lists of Oscar nominees. The same study found that zero female characters over 60 appeared as leads in the 25 films nominated for Oscars in the past three years. Gender aside, there were only two lead characters aged 60-plus during that time. Michael Keaton played them both. 


Although Crawford and Davis played characters in their mid-to-late 50s, being similarly aged themselves, it’s likely they would’ve been fighting the same fights today.


That’s even when women outnumber men by millions, and even when female-led films have been shown to crush box office expectations.


“Feud” creator Murphy knows this. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he stressed the feminist motivation behind the new series’ inaugural season, explaining that he “wanted to tell a story about modern issues that are facing women today, and, oddly enough, nothing’s changed.”


“You’d think things have progressed. They have not,” he said, diving into a laundry list of problems in Hollywood. “So really it’s a show about sexism and misogyny, and why aren’t women being paid as much as men, and why in our culture we have ‘It’ girls and not ‘It’ boys, and why do women feel there’s only room for there to be one successful woman at a time?”


In “Feud,” we watch two legendary actresses scheme to undermine each other’s odds at scoring another Oscar for her shelf, frustrated that the industry they love no longer seems to love them back.


It’s a great comedy but, as Murphy said, also a great tragedy. 

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Snapchat's Marie Curie Filter Includes Makeup And People Aren't Happy

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Snapchat unveiled a few new photo filters for International Women’s Day on Wednesday, and one of them is ... a problem.


To celebrate the day, the app rolled out filters honoring famous women: Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, and Marie Curie. The intention to be inclusive is there and appreciated. But there’s an issue with the Marie Curie filter ― she’s inexplicably got a smoky eye and fake eyelashes. 







Curie was a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in researching radioactivity. Throwing makeup onto her photo unnecessarily trivializes her accomplishments. It’s as if there needs to be a reminder that this highly accomplished scientist was ― gasp ― a woman.


There also are exploding chemicals in the filter, which, considering Curie died from aplastic anemia, believed to be caused by long-term exposure to radiation, seem sort of ill-fitting.


Twitter also took issue with the filter:






































This isn’t the first time Snapchat’s been in hot water with offensive filters. Do better, Snapchat.

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'Game Of Thrones' Concert Might Have A Secret Bran Connection

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Winter came, and Madison Square Garden was not ready for it. 


The line was out the door well past the scheduled showtime of 8 p.m. as thousands of people crowded into the New York City venue on Tuesday for the “Game of Thrones” live concert.


Despite the MSG madness, the pyrotechnics, which composer Ramin Djawadi told The Huffington Post are his favorite part of the show, were enough to melt any worries away. Over the course of the night, Djawadi and his orchestra took the audience on a journey through the first six seasons of the show with the help of music, effects and elaborate stage designs. It’s almost as if you’re a part of it. Then, a realization hits you:


Uh, you are part of it.


Somewhere between all the dragon fire and people screaming out “King in the North,” you start to get a feeling there’s an even deeper thing going on.  


Theory: The “Game of Thrones” concert secretly gives you the experience of being Bran.





When HuffPost asked actor Isaac Hempstead Wright to pick a pop song that could serve as his character Bran’s theme, he said, “I think we could get something from the ‘60s for Bran, something kind of trippy. He’s up with all the trees and the dreams, some kind of swinging ‘60s ... Woo!”


Woo! We couldn’t agree more. 


On “Game of Thrones,” it doesn’t get trippier than Bran. He’s able to use psychic abilities through Weirwood trees to see visions of the past, present and future in brief glimpses.


This is pretty much the experience at the concert, and there’s a bunch of evidence to support it.


 


1. Like Bran’s visions, the show basically starts out with a Weirwood tree.



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”Weir” on to you, “Game of Thrones.”


Early on in the show, a giant Weirwood appeared onstage. You might think, “Wow, it’s crazy we’re starting off with a Weirwood tree. It’s like we’re about to go on one of Bran’s psychic journeys.”


Yeah, it is like that. Isn’t it?


Since Bran uses his otherworldly powers through the trees, starting the show this way seems to let the audience experience how the character would start a psychic trip.


 


2. Isaac Hempstead Wright was actually there.




Yup. Bran was in the building.


Hempstead Wright has been supportive of the show since the beginning, helping to announce the concert back in August 2016. At the time, we thought, “Oh, this is cool, but they probably could’ve had any actor help announce it.”


After witnessing how much the show appears to be Bran’s experience, it makes sense. Chatting before the show, the actor told HuffPost how excited he was to finally see it.


“About six months ago, [Ramin] told me about this amazing idea he had to put on this big show with all the music from the show and showed me the concept art from it, and it looks exactly like it does now,” said Hempstead Wright.


The actor also joined Djawadi onstage to help start things off.




There’s Bran “raisin” the roof.


 


3. Like Bran’s visions, the concert treats you to glimpses of the world of Westeros throughout the night.


There’s the Iron Throne ...



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People shouting “Mhysa” ...



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You’ll hear “Light of the Seven” ...



Favorite soundtrack piece from GOT---- light of the seven !!!! #lightofsevdn #gameofthrones #got #ramindjawadi

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Dragons are everywhere ...


 



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And there’s even a tiny peek at the future with a Season 7 production video ...




 


4. The show was designed to be immersive. Like Bran, you are the Three-eyed Raven.



On the experience, Djawadi told us, “It’s just that whole idea of the immersiveness and pushing to something new. It’s really working, and the audience really picks that up. And the compliments [of], ‘Oh my God! I want to go back and watch Seasons 1 thru 6 again.’ That whole reliving the show is how I’ve always described it.”


Whether you view the show as Bran’s psychic journey or you just want to enjoy the most elaborate “Game of Thrones” recap ever, this concert is so hot it’ll make a Drogon wanna retire, man.




The Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience” is on tour through April 2.


 


 

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'American Idol' Star Says She 'Chose' To Be Straight After 2-Year Gay Stint

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Less than a year after noting she “doesn’t agree” with the LGBTQ “lifestyle,” “American Idol” alum La’Porsha Renae made some startling claims about her own sexuality. 


Renae, who lost to Trent Harmon on the final season of “Idol,” responded to a Twitter user’s claims that she was homophobic early Wednesday. The 23-year-old singer quickly denied the accusation. 










But the Mississippi native didn’t stop there. When another Twitter user took issue with Renae deeming that being gay was a “choice,” she responded: 










Another Twitter user pressed her for clarification, to which she replied:






When a Twitter user refuted her claims that sexuality was a choice, Renae noted: 










Renae, who is gearing up for the release of her debut album, “Already All Ready,” had to backpedal last year after making controversial remarks about the LGBTQ community in an interview. 


In a conference call with reporters after her “American Idol” stint wrapped, Renae was asked about Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, a “religious liberty” law that allows people with faith-based objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples, Billboard reported


“I am one of the people who don’t really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn’t brought up that way. It wasn’t how I was raised,” Renae said at the time. The singer went on to disclose that she has “a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual and they’re such sweet, nice people.”


Renae took to Periscope just days later, where she apologized and attempted to clarify her comments. 


“I can understand when I read it back why people were offended and for that I deeply apologize because I wasn’t trying to offend anyone by what I said, I was just trying to honestly answer a question that actually caught me off-guard,” she said in the chat. “It was supposed to be an interview about singing, and it became political and I’m not a political person, at all.”


UPDATE March 8: Renae elaborated on her remarks in an email to The Huffington Post. 


“I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that’s the life God intended me to live my life. My response to your skepticism is that many people walk many different strokes of life,” she wrote. “Some people believe they chose homosexuality and some believe they didn’t. Who’s to say one is wrong? It’s not fair to generalize anyone’s sexuality or walk of life.” 


She continued: 



Let people believe what they want to believe about themselves. Life can be a complex thing. It’s not always black or white. I took a journey and became more grounded in my faith, and decided that I wanted to live a heterosexual life. The main point I want people to take away from my Tweets is that we are all shaped by different experiences, and we should all love and respect one another. We don’t have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along. I have homosexual friends and family. I believe in God and Jesus, my christ and savior, yet i have CLOSE friends who are atheists, friends who are Muslims, friends who are Jewish, friends who are transgender and believe God gave them the wrong body...We ALL LOVE ONE ANOTHER....we don’t try to “convert” each other and we don’t CONDEMN each other for how different our walks of life are.


Everyone should have to right to believe in what they believe in and to live their lives the way they feel they want to. Me choosing to be straight does not in any way reflect on my love for homosexuals. I’ve been told that I’m a bigot, a hypocrite, a gay basher, a homophobic. I’m none of those things. I LOVE EVERYONE. ANYONE is welcome to hang out with me and have fun, or sit down with me and talk. I don’t discriminate against anyone. And I don’t condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do. I so wish that people knew me for who I really am, but I don’t have that privilege. Social Media takes a statement like, “Despite our different beliefs, we should be able to love and respect each other and treat each other with kindness” and turns it into “LaPorsha Renae Hates LGBTQ community.” 



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Looking For The Perfect Gift? Here's Where You Can Find A Jeweled Victorian Gas Mask.

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A Brooklyn, New York, flea market will offer some bugged-out items for sale this weekend ― like a spider web ring.


The First Annual Oddities Flea Market will be held March 12 at the Brooklyn Bazaar, giving lovers of the weird a chance to buy some truly bizarre items in all price ranges, according to organizer Ryan Matthew Cohn, best known for his appearances on the Science Channel series, “Oddities.”



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18 Quotes From Women Who Have Made History

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For the month of March, HuffPost Women is honoring one historic woman each day on our Facebook page as part of our Women’s History Month campaign #WeMakeHerstory. Illustrator Kimothy Joy partnered with HuffPost to create one beautiful quote card a day to celebrate these groundbreaking women. 


Here are 18 quotes from 18 history-making women. Follow HuffPost Women on Facebook to see the rest. 





To see more of Kimothy Joy’s work head over to her website, Instagram or Facebook.  


This Women’s History Month, remember that we have the power to make history every day. Follow along with HuffPost on FacebookTwitter, and Instagram in March using #WeMakeHerstory.




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Margaret Atwood's Advice For Young Feminists: 'Be Informed, Be Aware'

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It’s an International Women’s Day miracle! Margaret Atwood, author of the classic feminist dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale, took to the internet today bearing gifts: A new teaser for the Hulu series adaptation of the book, a takeover of the series’ Instagram account, and a Reddit AMA bursting with feminist inspiration


Over the course of her AMA, the speculative fiction doyenne offered Reddit users insights about her work, the upcoming “Handmaid’s Tale” series, and the feminist struggle. A major topic of discussion was the dystopian novel ― timely due to both its soon-to-be-released TV version and the timeliness of the book’s events. The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a future North America in which a theocratic regime has seized power and dramatically rolled back women’s rights. 



April 1984, starting to type The Handmaid’s Tale in West Berlin. — Margaret Atwood #HandmaidsTale

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Here are some of the big takeaways:


Young feminists need to stay informed about threats to their rights.


In one response, Atwood encouraged young women to be politically engaged ― a fitting message from the author of a book that’s had such a profound impact on many feminists today. “Be informed, be aware,” she wrote, urging feminists to try “to prevent the roll-back that is taking place especially in the area of women’s health. Who knew that this would ever have to be defended? Childbirth care, pre-natal care, early childhood care ― many people will not even be able to afford any of it.”


The consequences of women losing access to reproductive healthcare would be dire.


If these healthcare battles were to be lost, Atwood was clear that the damage would be severe: “Dead bodies on the floor will result.”


Sexual assault is still a problem, and we need to be able to defend ourselves.


“There is the whole issue of sexual violence being used as control ― it is such an old motif.” She suggested one concrete, practical step for women to take immediately: “If I were a younger woman I’d be taking a self-defense course,” she advised. “It’s an unsettled time.”


The dystopian world she created in The Handmaid’s Tale seems increasingly possible here and now.


When one Reddit user went so far as to posit that the U.S. “is basically on the road to becoming Gilead” (the theocratic, patriarchal totalitarian state in The Handmaid’s Tale), Atwood didn’t disagree. “I cannot tell you how strange this feels,” she admitted. “I wrote the book hoping to fend it off, and I believe it will be fended off: America is very diverse, a lot of people have been jolted out of political slumber and are paying attention, and the Constitution still stands.”





Comparing the 2017 screen adaptation of the novel to a 1990 film version, she noted that times had changed: “That world is closer now! [...] then, many people were saying, ‘It can’t happen here.’ Now, not so much.”


The Hulu series won’t downplay the anti-woman dystopian themes. 


During the AMA, she had high praise for the Hulu series, which she helped write and on which she’s credited as a consulting producer. “It goes farther than I did in the book,” she revealed. 


How exactly does it go farther? Let’s just say: We can’t wait to find out.


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Telemundo Actors Join Union In A First For U.S. Spanish-Language Television

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Telenovela actors at Telemundo voted overwhelmingly to unionize on Wednesday, bringing collective bargaining to the world of U.S. Spanish-language television.


It had been 65 years since actors at a major U.S. network had cast ballots in a union election, according to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The union says Telemundo performers voted 91 to 21 in favor of unionizing, though the results have not yet been ratified by government officials.


Telemundo, which is owned by NBC-Universal, had been an outlier in U.S. television as the only network using professional actors not working under union contracts. The network’s telenovela soap operas are extremely popular, helping it recently outperform its prime competitor, Univision, with huge primetime ratings.


“It’s historic for people in Spanish-language television,” Gabrielle Carteris, president of SAG-AFTRA, told The Huffington Post. “We want people to be on a fair, level playing field no matter what language they speak.”


A Telemundo spokeswoman sent a statement saying the network was “disappointed with the result” of the union election, but was committed to negotiating a contract. “We continue to be dedicated to making Telemundo a great place to work and to Telemundo’s long-term success,” she said.


The union will include roughly 150 actors, dancers, singers and stunt performers.


Pablo Azar, a Telemundo actor, said the network’s performers hoped to achieve the same standards and guarantees that unionized American actors have long enjoyed at traditional U.S. networks. That includes an assurance of residuals ― industry speak for royalties ―  since Telemundo’s offerings are distributed around the world. Many also hope to gain health coverage through the union and overtime pay, he said.


Azar said the network had strongly urged performers to vote against the union, airing anti-union videos at work and sending anti-union materials to workers’ homes. 


“It was a long journey, and it was hard,” said the 35-year-old Azar, a Mexico native who, like many Telemundo performers, lives in Miami. “We fought against fear. A lot of the actors were afraid of speaking up or of signing anything. But here we are.”

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Nature Just Obliterated A Famous ‘Game Of Thrones’ Landmark

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It served as the spectacular backdrop for Daenerys Targaryen’s wedding to Khal Drogo in the first ever episode of “Game of Thrones.”


But the natural “Azure Window” rock arch that jutted off Gozo Island in the Maltese archipelago is sadly no more. A powerful storm Wednesday caused the arch and its stack to collapse into the sea below, reports the Times of Malta.





“There was a big raging sea beneath the window,” said local resident Roger Chessell, who witnessed the collapse. “Suddenly, the arch collapsed into the sea with a loud whoomph, throwing up a huge spray. By the time the spray had faded, the stack had gone too.”


Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat called the collapse of the limestone rock “heartbreaking.”


He revealed via Twitter that officially commissioned studies had indicated it “would be hard hit by unavoidable natural corrosion.” “That sad day arrived,” Muscat added.










The Island of Gozo’s tourist board also lamented the loss of the rock formation, known locally as it-Tieqa tad-Dwejrawhich it estimated that 80 percent of all tourists to the island had visited.


“The inevitable and the much feared has happened,” it said via a statement on Facebook. “The flagship of the Gozitan touristic sites has sunk in its same birth place from where for thousands of years, it stood high and proud heralding one of the natural beauties our little island is endowed with.”





Dozens of Twitter users also paid tribute to the former formation:


 






















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Man Turns Empty Cement Factory Into The Most Magical Home

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Ricardo Bofill knows a thing or two about home improvement.


The Spanish architect has spent decades converting an old cement factory outside Barcelona into the airy, plant-covered home of his dreams. Inside and out, the complex is nothing short of stunning:






After purchasing the factory, Bofill and his team emptied its silos, knocked down some walls and planted plenty of greenery. Then, they got to work transforming the complex’s decrepit interior into a home and workspace.


Their masterpiece includes a living room, kitchen, conference room, underground galleries and a studio that spans four floors connected by a spiral staircase. Plants spill over the walls to create rooftop oases and ground-level gardens galore.


Bofill says his life feels more seamless in his converted factory than anywhere else.


“I have the impression of living in a precinct, in a closed universe which protects me from the outside and everyday life,” he wrote on the project’s website. “...Life goes on here in a continuous sequence, with very little difference between work and leisure.”


With a workspace THIS beautiful, we can see how that’s the case. 






While his mega-home is impressive, Bofill says it will never be complete. He and his team will continue to tinker with the layout and prove that even old spaces can take on new life with a little care.


“Slowly, with the valuable help of Catalan craftsmen, the Cement Factory was transformed,” Bofill wrote, “but it will always remain an unfinished work.”


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