When a single TV show with multiple characters of colour would be pigeonholed as niche, Scandal breaks ground with its black female protagonist who doesn’t only stand for black experience.
Yelizaveta (Liza) Shapiro
Yelizaveta (Liza) Shapiro is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation, ‘Bodies Wiley and Bodies Vile: The Promise of Androgynous Poetics and the Threat of Abject Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Zinaida Gippius’ explores the interplay of androgyny, disgust, and new forms of female embodiment in British and Russian modernism. Liza is an English instructor at Hunter College where she has also taught Russian language and literature. She lives in Queens with her two cats and partner and is an avid cheese eater, poetry reader, and American Horror Story binger.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey