Hundred Heroines' Vanessa Ansa welcomes Heroine Dorothy Bohm to discuss her impressive oeuvre, accompanied by an essay by her daughter Monica Bohm-Duchen
PlanetHeroines15th March 2021
Week 48, 365 : March 8, International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. At the same time it is just another day in the struggle for a world with gender equality.
PlanetHeroines4th March 2021
Week 47, The Flâneuse : Originally the image of strolling or sauntering was ascribed to an affluent male, a literary gentleman from 19th-century France who moved unobserved, through the streets but was always observing.
PlanetHeroines23rd February 2021
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
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
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
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
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
