The female familial bond is of a spiritual and primordial quality, signified largely by their shared femaleness. Old and wise women have always exchanged with d...
"It hurts," kid sobbing. It would hurt for a while. His mom is looking in her purse. "Is everyone's blood red, mamma?" the kid is rubbing the blood on his injur...
Sean Bell (2006), Oscar Grant (2009), Trayvon Martin (2012), Kendrec McDade (2012), Johnathan Ferrell (2013), Kimani Gray (2013), Eric Garner (2014), Michael Br...
The productive work of women in the textile industries has been of greater importance than in any other trade. As soon as the textile industries for commercial ...
Ingredients: two pounds of discrimination, four ounces of inequality, a handful of verbal abuse, and three teaspoons of unwanted compliments. We are having a wo...
The relationship between sex and food is long-standing, with obvious metaphoric similarities between certain kinds of food and sexual organs, as well as the sim...
Humanity is experiencing a centripetal migration, a journey towards its own decisions and livelihood. Distinguished people, that were sometimes taken for grante...
Women’s bodies have always been the medium and message of masculine voyeurism in photography and arts in general. It has been regarded as passive, as a privil...
Russian documentary photographer Katia Repina (@katia_repina) is currently living in the United States and working on several projects related to sexuality, gen...
Denial, consumption, religion, activism, therapy; people choose their mechanisms wisely to survive in a world that becomes less livable each day. In Cali, the t...
A few days ago, Hair love by Matthew A. Cherry and producer Karen Rupert Toliver won the animation Oscar in the US. Through a simple act of a father combing his...
The fires have been burning in Australia since the end of September - beginning of October. The warnings for this high risk season were issued months earlier, a...
Who would believe itA beast grows inside,Out of the sweetest smileThe claws do not stretchIn very soft pink handsA beast grows insideAnd this voice is just a gr...
The current situation in Singapore regarding the LGBTQ+ community is one of ambiguity, in both legislation and culture. Under Section 377A of the law, dating ba...
Uma Bista (@uma.bista) is a photographer born and living in Kathmandu, Nepal travelled west to discover from up close what the women in that part of her country...
The classification of women according to men’s needs or experiences is something so deeply rooted in our culture that some women themselves, even realizing ho...
October is breast cancer month on a world wide scale with the goal to increase awareness about the disease, encourage early discovery to increase survival chanc...
Foto Femme United has been talking a lot about sexism in the photography industry since its creation, bringing to the surface discrepancies in representation, o...
The most pedantic voices we hear when mentioning Middle East are political instability, terrorism, extremism in religion, oppression of women, war from which da...
Essentially the riots that took place in 1969 in Lower Manhattan, NY are seen as the beginning of the gay rights liberation movement in the United States, becau...
The shift to the extreme right that the world is living in these past years carries multiple threats to the hardly- conquered women’s fundamental rights. One ...
Lina, a 25 years old Palestinian architecture graduate, self-taught artist and poet based in Amman, the capital of Jordan, thinks that "not defining women's str...
During my first class of anthropology at university I discovered I could not become anything else but an anthropologist, or at least it should be a great part o...
Models in the fashion industry are constantly exposed to make-up artists, hairstylists, photographers and others working behind the scenes like journalists betw...
For women who led the feminist revolutions of the past decades and conquered liberation from laws that culturally erased women’s sexuality and their right to ...
Menstruation is a natural body function as any other. The average woman has her period for 2,535 days of the life, nearly seven years. Yet, women frequently fee...
The strength of colour is no secret. We associate it with feelings, phenomena and preferences, as we do to political fronts, movements and ideologies. Conventio...
The first time I watched Lost in Translation (2003), I wasn’t aware of two things. The first one, was that it would become an irony to watch it with my husban...
This week, we want to feature some pieces by Annie Collinge. She is a New York-based photographer. She has worked with Vice, Flaunt and Dazed, to name a few. Sh...
Surrealism began in the early 1920s when artists started to experiment with photomontage, collage, double exposure and solarization techniques; unleashing emoti...
Self-portraiture has been used as a mode of expression in all artistic mediums since the 15th century. By focusing on the self as a subject, the artist examines...
Despite her age and breast cancer, the director Agnès Varda never stopped being active and participating in events in which she was directly involved (exhibiti...
A group of students of the Master degree program in gender studies at the University Paris 8 are organizing a one day meeting called Féminisme(s) Noir(s), Touj...
No Man’s Land is a three day workshop intended for 8 women photographers, organized in Sarajevo (Bosnia) by VII agency and VII Foundation from the 9th to 11th...
The law, the first in the world concerning equal pay, was approved in March 2017, before International Women Day and was effective starting the first Monday of ...
We all probably think of images from the 1950s and 60s when we talk about sexist advertisements, which is not wrong. We do however tend to neglect the pertinenc...
It is no secret that photography has been a male-dominated industry since its birth. Historically, women have always been largely under-represented in the creat...
Diane Arbus (born Diane Nemerov in 1923 to a wealthy Jewish family) was an American photographer of Russian origins, well known for her black and white images o...
One crucial point that has to be clarified in order to fully appreciate Foto Femme United’s work is the idea of woman as perceived by this community. A woman ...
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