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Hello Tumblr Feminist Community! (Please reblog)

I have a proposition for you all!

I am a Women’s Studies student at McGill university in my last semester. I’m taking a course called “Feminist Periodical Culture” (think feminist zines and magazines) this semester and I need your help!

An option for our final project is to create our own zine so what I was thinking is to create a feminist tumblr zine. 

I have loved the feminist tumblr community ever since I got tumblr and I think it would be interesting to go from digital to print media instead of the other way around. Submissions can be anything: text, drawings, original images, poetry, etc. Obviously everyone will be fully credited and I’ll send a copy of the zine to you for free in the mail. =)

I’m not sure yet when I will stop accepting submissions, but it will be far away from now because the project isn’t due until the end of the semester.

If you have any questions or submissions either message me on tumblr or e-mail them to tumblrfemzine@gmail.com

THANK YOOOOU!

Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 10, 1973

In this piece, Abramovic once again explores the dynamics of pain, violence and self-destruction. In the first performance of this piece in 1973, she recorded the “rhythmic melody” of the sounds made as she plunged a knife rapidly between the fingers of her outstretched hand, changing knives each time she stabbed her hand- rather than the surface on which her hand rested- until she had used many knives.

Playing the tape back, she repeated the performance using the recording as a “score” to duplicate the same actions and injuries as the same moments. At once a feat of extraordinary concentration and a scene of repetitous self-mutilation, Rhythm 10 amplifies the way in which women sometimes engage in self-sabotage.

From foot-binding to obsessive dieting, diverse cultural energy has been dedicated to deforming women’s bodies, often with women’s own masochistic consent.

Sanja Iveković, Double Life, 1975-76

This series shows photos from the artist’s personal life juxtaposed with magazine ads from popular women’s magazines.

“In the 1970s Iveković probed the persuasive qualities of mass media and its identity-forging potential, after 1990—following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the birth of a new nation—she focused on the transformation of reality from socialist to post-socialist political systems.  Iveković offers a fascinating view into the official politics of power, gender roles, and the paradoxes inherent in society´s collective memory.”

I think this really ties to the John Berger quote I posted a little while back: women are constantly watching themselves. They see an image of themselves as they are performing their life.