If you’re not familiar with beauty pageants, there’s a point in the contest when the contestants must give their hip, waist and bust measurements to the judges and audience. (Hard to believe we still live in a world where women are being judged on their physical measurements of “beauty”.) On Sunday, October 29, viewers of […]
[P]aula Scher is an American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design, and the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991. Scher moved to New York City and took her first job as a layout artist for Random House’s children’s book division. In 1972, she was hired by CBS Records to […]
[D]id you know work by women artists makes up only 3–5% of major permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe? Or that the top three museums in the world, the British Museum (est. 1753), the Louvre (est. 1793), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (est. 1870) have never had female directors? Or that only five […]
My painting carries with it the message of pain. ― Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo was no stranger to pain. As much as she was known for her skills as a painter, she is also known for her remarkable endurance and strength under horrific medical and personal conditions. The victim of polio at the age of […]
It turns out that how you think about stress is also one of those core beliefs that can affect your health, happiness, and success. As we’ll see, your stress mindset shapes everything from the emotions you feel during a stressful situation to the way you cope with stressful events. That, in turn, can determine whether […]
Astronaut Peggy Whitson just broke the world record for most time spent in space by any American – 665 days. That’s not the only record she’s beaten, however.The first female, and first non-pilot to serve as Chief Astronaut, she’s held multiple firsts for NASA. According to the Associated Press, she is the world’s oldest female […]
We use all kinds of ways to escape — all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can’t stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain. – Pema Chodron We […]
In 1974, Adrienne Rich’s collection of exploratory poems, Diving into the Wreck, split the 1974 National Book Award for Poetry with Allen Ginsberg. Declining to accept it individually, Rich was joined by the two other feminist poets nominated, Alice Walker and Audre Lorde, to accept it on behalf of all women “whose voices have gone […]