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Artist Feature: Adaeze Okaro
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Artist Feature: Adaeze Okaro

Born and raised in Enugu state, Nigeria, Adaeze Okaro is a self- taught photographer. She centers her work around portraiture, fine art, documentary imagery, and fashion photography Abuja of Nigeria, where she lives. She has been taking photos since March 2017. She began taking fashion portraits with her iPhone 5s at the time. In September of 2018, she started taking photos professionally. That same year of November, she got commissioned for her first project for Dove. Adaeze Okaro loved the arts as a child. Wanted to be an artist as a child but then fell in love her parent’s professions but not enough to be amazing medical doctor as they were. She failed terribly at math & other science related classes. At age 8, she picked up a film camera in her garage at home in Enugu, Nigeria. Owned at first by one of her brothers who had used it too. But when she held it in her hands, she never wanted to let go after. She wanted to take it everywhere with her and take photos with it. She really loved how it worked and has been in love with cameras & any device that can pause time or a moment forever of all sorts ever since. Obiageli’s work features Black women and men in colorful, lucid portraits that are deeply infused with cultural traces of her origins. Inspired by black beauty, love, melancholy & Saturday/ Sunday mornings of watching her fashion killa of a mom getting ready for her Saturday functions and  church Sunday service. Adaeze has had her work internationally published and featured by Vogue Italia’s Photo Vogue, WePresent,, It’s Nice That. With her work for companies like Dove, Getty Images, Girlgaze, VSCO, Adobe, Adobe Stock, Adobe Lightroom and more, Obiageli’s work continues to showcase the beauty of Black women while aiming to dismantle barriers and stereotypes surrounding Black women, one photograph at a time.

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Feminist Founder: self love tool chest
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Feminist Founder: self love tool chest

Nia Patterson is a well-respected Black and Queer mental health advocate, social activist, artist, content creator, podcaster, and business owner. She is the creator behind @TheFriendINeverWanted and artist behind @SelfLoveToolChest. They are also the host and producer of the Body Trauma Podcast you can listen to here and also on Instagram @bodytraumapod. Their work is mainly centered around the Eating Disorder Recovery, Fat Activism, LGBTQIA+, and Self Love communities. Nia is passionate about advocating for people in marginalized bodies and seeks to bring resources to those who do not readily see representation and healthcare for themselves.

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Feminist Founder: THE HONEY POT CO.
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Feminist Founder: THE HONEY POT CO.

We caught up with Bea Dixon, the Feminist Founder behind The Honey Pot Co, the first complete plant-derived feminine care system in the market for humans with vaginas.  After suffering from a yearlong bout of Bacterial Vaginosis, the formula for what would become The Honey Pot’s washes came to Bea Dixon from a feminine ancestor through a dream. Now that’s what we call centering the divine feminine! Meet the feminist founder revolutionizing the traditionally white male dominated industry and reminding us to treat our vaginal health the same way we treat our physical and mental health.

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KATY DEEPWELL INTERVIEW
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KATY DEEPWELL INTERVIEW

Our art intern, Emma K, interviewed feminist art critic and theorist Professor Katy Deepwell on her pioneering work to gain visibility for feminist art and her upcoming book “50 Feminist Art Manifestos.”

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Feminist Author Feature: Patrisse Cullors
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Feminist Author Feature: Patrisse Cullors

Activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors draws from years of political, social and humanitarian engagement to offer a handbook, a primer, a road map, a 12-step program and a self-care manual all in one. Cullors' intent is to help us toward imagining a new world, one achieved by the abolition of current carceral systems and guided by tenets of transformative justice, a system “rooted in dignity and care for all people.” An Abolitionist's Handbook challenges us to mindfully and powerfully step up, while offering a helping hand.

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Music Feature: JOJO ABOT
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Music Feature: JOJO ABOT

The Ghanaian-born Los Angeles-based creator JOJO ABOT is a woman of many talents. Engaging with everything from music, visual art, film, photography, poetry, fashion and performance art, JOJO ABOT’s body of work gets to the root of the African spirit and highlights the need to connect with the divine forces operating within us all. Her unique Afrohynosonic sound serves both as a tribute to her native Ghana as well as a link to the divine, with punchy basslines and catchy percussion serving as the vessel to deliver her potent and socially charged lyrics. Her music explores everything from a woman’s right to choose, to the impact of the white man on African peoples, to healing the collective consciousness - which caught the attention of many around the globe including musical legends Ms. Lauryn Hill, Common, and Ebo Taylor.

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Artist Feature: Paz Bernstein
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Artist Feature: Paz Bernstein

Paz Bernstein (1992), made three short films, all surrounding females and feminist subjects. In the past years she has helped organize protests against sexual assaulters, and did an artistic installation against the former prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Currently she is working on her new short film, which is about the collective trauma of women at gynecology appointments, at the "Open Workshop" artist residency in Denmark. In her spare time she illustrates and animates short clips about sexuality, body positivity, and intimate moments. for some people these subjects are considered taboo, so she does her art in a humorous way, in hope that this can make everything easier to digest.

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Feminist weekly: icymi 2021 headlines
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Feminist weekly: icymi 2021 headlines

News clippings and #FeministWins curated by Contributing News Editor Annie Wu Henry. Here are the headlines that defined 2021. ⏬Scroll for #FeministWins at the bottom.

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TAKE ACTION: PROTECT Abortion ACCESS
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TAKE ACTION: PROTECT Abortion ACCESS

We believe everybody is entitled to reproductive freedom - that includes access to safe and legal abortions. But as the Supreme Court listens to arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and questions the constitutionality of abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy - that right is in jeopardy. If this extreme ban is allowed by the Supreme Court to go unchallenged it will threaten the 50 years of abortion rights protected by the landmark 1973 supreme court ruling in Roe v Wade.

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Feminist Weekly December 23
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Feminist Weekly December 23

News clippings and #FeministWins curated by Contributing News Editor Annie Wu Henry. From feel good news to headliners keeping you on the pulse. Here is the round up for the week!

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Artist Feature: Alina Gross
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Artist Feature: Alina Gross

Alina Gross is an artist from Germany who works between Düsseldorf and Berlin. She focuses her work on bizarre and unusual perspectives of the feminine body. An active participant in body positivity movement, she has published internationally in Vogue and Allure. She has exhibited around the world and is represented by The Curators in New York.

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Artist Feature: Dawnee Lebeau
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Artist Feature: Dawnee Lebeau

Independent Visual Storyteller, Dawn (Dawnee) LeBeau is Itazipčola Oóhenunpa (Without bows and Two Kettle) of the Tetonwan Oyate (People of the Prairie). She was born and raised on the Wakpa’ Was’te’ Lakota Makoc’e (Cheyenne River Lakota Lands). Dawnee is inspired by portrait, landscape and documentary photography. She currently resides on the Wakpa Was’te’ Lakota Makoce’ (Cheyenne River Lands).

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Feminist Weekly November 22
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Feminist Weekly November 22

News clippings and #FeministWins curated by Contributing News Editor Annie Wu Henry. From feel good news to headliners keeping you on the pulse. Here is the round up for the week!

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Artist Feature: Kenny Lemes
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Artist Feature: Kenny Lemes

Kenny Lemes is a self taught Cuban photographer born in Havana, now currently working and living in Buenos Aires. Lemes have had two individual exhibitions and his work is part of private and public art collections.

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Women Rise teaches us about nFTs
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Women Rise teaches us about nFTs

Feminist and Women Rise NFT have teamed up to creat a how to guide on ‘NFT’s’. On November 17 we are hosting an IG Live Chat with the team of Women Rise, CocoNFT and Feminist.

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Artist Feature: Trista Marie McGovern
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Artist Feature: Trista Marie McGovern

Trista Marie McGovern is a queer, disabled photographer, writer, model and interdisciplinary artist. Her work is fueled by exploring human story and personal identity. Where Shame Dies is a cohesive project about disability and sexuality, presented as a photo book featuring a series of essays and prose.

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Artist Feature: Dani Coyle
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Artist Feature: Dani Coyle

Dani Coyle aka @inter_sexy (she/they) is an intersex creative and a visual/visibility activist currently undertaking a Master’s in Gender Studies at the University of Oxford. She is a world leader within the global intersex movement and wider LGBTQIA+ community and for that reason, was included in the Dazed100 2020. Her interests lie at the intersection of fashion, beauty, gender, queerness, identity, media and technology.

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Feminist Weekly November 04
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Feminist Weekly November 04

News clippings and #FeministWins curated by Contributing News Editor Annie Wu Henry. From feel good news to headliners keeping you on the pulse. Here is the round up for the week!

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