Looking at Documenteur, Hanstein examines Varda’s site-specific filmmaking, which maps Venice, CA as a terrain made of memories and emotions.
...Critical Reflection
Always radical, always engaged, always personal. Either scholarly or polemic writing that engages with feminist visual culture and feminist theory and history from a contemporary perspective. Our authors provide ground for reassessment of existing paradigms or subversive recuperation and reinterpretation.
Reading Electrical Gaza, Norouzi frames the viewers’ empathic engagement as a redemptive act and considers an appraisal of discomfort as ethical labour.
...Analysing VALIE EXPORT’s ...Remote…Remote… (1973), Filser ponders on the deeper meaning of the disturbing, visceral on-screen body images.
...Harley Quinn’s rise to becoming one of DC’s most popular and recognisable characters was hardly a feminist success story.
...Kvistad & Duggan read Carroll’s work to ponder on her fascination with skin as it is depicted on the page, but also the reader’s skin.
...Focussing on two South Korean works by Soo Shin Ji, Molisso explores feminist instatoons as palatable political passion projects.
...Retelling the story of Persephone, Lore Olympus shows that misogyny is driven by fear and envy of the feminine ability to create.
...Scherr sketches the potential contribution of comics and graphic narratives towards disseminating future-oriented visions of justice.
...In Fatherland and Bezimena, Nina Bunjevac exposes larger socio-historical structures of violence and oppression.
...Examining female characters in graphic novels, Hashemi discusses how Iranian diaspora writers engage with trauma and gender representation.
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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