![]() ![]() Margaret Cho (left) and Atsuko Okatsuka.įor this issue, we asked 33 mid- and late-career female artists and creative people (the majority of them over 45) to identify a younger female artist who inspires them. Cheryl “Salt” James (left) and Sandra “Pepa” Denton (right), a.k.a. Yet if being a woman means always looking backward - to remind us of where we were, what we must avoid and how our predecessors managed in their own difficult circumstances - it means looking forward, too, as part of the ongoing exercise of hope that is also intrinsic to womanhood.Ĭlockwise from top left: Maria Grazia Chiuri (right) and Zadie Xa. I always say that history is not a line but a loop, and it’s been dismaying and frightening for many to watch as we tumble down the other side of the curve. I suspect many women, in America and around the world, feel they’re in a state of whiplash as they’ve witnessed hard-won freedoms and rights become imperiled in recent years. ![]() Poor women’s lives are circumscribed further women marginalized because of their race, sexuality or ability, further still. ![]() Make art, live alone, have children, don’t have children: A woman’s choices are often circumscribed by the era in which she is born, and then again by how tolerant, encouraging or generous the men in her life - beginning with her father - are. For most of civilization (and even now), the question was never what women could do - it was what we were allowed to do. ![]()
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