PlanetHeroines, Author at Hundred Heroines

Carnival

Week 46, Carnival : Carnival’s origin lies is a Christian festive season before Lent. Traditionally it is celebrated in countries with a large Catholic presence with parades, street parties and sometimes religious services. Masked figures with wondrous costume may people the streets accompanied by live music.

PlanetHeroines18th February 2021

Noticeboard

2022 Nomination Form

Nominations for 2021 Heroines now open

PlanetHeroines11th February 2021

Film Festival

Warriors, Dreamers, Educators

Week 45 : Hip-hop feminism can be seen as part of Black feminism, the fight for social change in a capitalist system that insists on inequalities based on race, class, gender and heteronormativity. It is a ‘theoretical and practical enactment of intersectional, sex positive and inclusive feminist ideas and concepts that draw…

PlanetHeroines11th February 2021

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Voyage of Discovery

The Lens: A Peacemaking Tool

By Venetia Jolly : This exhibition showcases the different heroinic practices of peacemaking and peacekeeping. Usually defined as freedom from civil disturbance, ‘peace’ appears to be a very simple term on the surface.

PlanetHeroines8th February 2021

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Voyage of Discovery

Women In Wonderland: Surreal Narratives

By Mariasanta Tedesco : In the realm of Surrealist art, women have been especially overshadowed and underrepresented. However, Surrealism – perhaps above all modernist movements – anticipated the second wave feminism of the 1960s.

PlanetHeroines8th February 2021

Voyage of Discovery

Gender Equality

By Beatrice Zanca : Feminism’s aim is equality for all. However, this message often gets skewed, as white women are typically the face of feminism.

PlanetHeroines7th February 2021

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Voyage of Discovery

Art as Activism

By Sena Nwosu : The art sphere has long been a place of activism and a tool to address systemic inequality. Though the medium may vary, artists have found innovative ways to challenge how we perceive as well as narrate the world through art.

PlanetHeroines7th February 2021

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Voyage of Discovery

Energy

By Demelza Kingston : The elemental energy that we seek to harness in clean energy production is evident in the striking landscape photography of Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) who captured the beauty of rock formations hewn over millennia by wind and water erosion.

PlanetHeroines4th February 2021

Film Festival

Through Rose-Tinted Glasses?

Remember beautiful French actress Brigid Bardot in the 1960ies, before her political views took a sinister turn? Remember all the nice objects that surrounded our childhood? Till today US-American Laci Fay and her husband live as if they were in 1958.

PlanetHeroines4th February 2021

AnOther Magazine Review of Hundred Heroines

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AnOther: ‘Brilliant Ways to Pass Time This February’

Anemoia: A Nostalgia for a Time I Never Knew by Hundred+ Heroines, Online: February 1 – 28 A transportative new exhibition arrives online today, spotlighting the work of seven pioneering women photographers – and offering an incredible record of 20th-century Asia, Europe, and North America in the process. Organised by Hundred +…

PlanetHeroines2nd February 2021