I was supposed to go to the ACLU Women's Resist training to take some pictures and maybe even interview some inspiring people, however I was unable to get a ride.
I do have some friends that could be of some help considering they have attended protests, I also spoke to the officer of feminism club and she agreed to help me with whatever deemed necessary!!!!
My magazine title will be Frida.
Frida Kahlo is a personal feminist hero of mine due to her admirable perseverance through the overcoming of hardships such as polio, a terrible bus accident, and miscarriages. Kahlo used the pain and suffering to produce beautiful portraits. One of the many examples of this in her art is "My Birth," (1932). In this small tin painting the head of Kahlo, with closed eyes, is emerging from between a woman's outstretched legs. An image above the bed shows the "Mater Dolorosa," the Virgin of Sorrows, pierced by swords and weeping, thus also suggesting the child could be the one the artist had recently miscarried. This is a startling image for Western audiences since childbirth has not been addressed, if at all, so frankly in Christian iconography. Through a woman's consciousness Kahlo brings to center stage the process of birth in which women, not men, play a dominant role.
"My painting carries with it the message of pain." - Frida Kahlo
FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954) is the most famous Mexican woman artist on the contemporary art scene. In our society, where the media focus is on sex and violence, certain autobiographical elements of Kahlo's life -- her physical handicaps (as a result of an accident when she was eighteen), her marriage with the world famous muralist Diego Rivera, her husband's infidelities, Kahlo's affairs (both with men and women), and her unhappiness at not being able to bear a child -- provoke psychological discussions of her work.
Kahlo's communist politics and their impact on her art are either ignored or trivialized. Janice Helland, a Canadian professor of art history, one of the more perceptive writers on the artist, observes that establishing Kahlo only as a tragic and exotic figure results in whitewashing the "bloody, brutal, and overtly political content" of her art production.
Kahlo taught a group of young artists mural painting, as well as encouraging her students to hold firm political and social views. Eleven days before Frida died she participated in a public protest against U.S. intervention in Guatemala. Even her death was political. On July 14, l954, her body lay in state in the foyer of the Belles Artes in Mexico City. Her coffin was draped with a large flag bearing the Soviet hammer and sickle superimposed upon a star.
Kahlo painted a feminine reality which makes visible so much that has remained hidden in women's lives.
Kahlo's painting reflect an interrelationship with political commentary and feminist values.
Kahlo's art and life often reveals the ongoing struggle for self-determination in the lives of women. Kahlo forged an identity in her paintings outside the strictures of her society. Her art deals with conception, pregnancy, abortion and gender roles in an unusually frank and open manner, thus making them political statements because women have not generally felt free to address such personal subjects so publicly. The artist's life and art, then, appeals not only to feminist scholars but a wide general audience of women as well as men.
THE ARTS, POLITICS, AND FEMINISM ENCAPSULATES FRIDA KAHLO AND MY MAGAZINE.
Motian-Meadows, Mary. "Kahlo As Artist, Woman, Rebel." Kahlo As Artist, Woman, Rebel | Solidarity. Solidarity, n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2017.
"Frida Kahlo Biography." Frida Kahlo Biography. N.p., 2011. Web. 17 Mar. 2017.
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