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Nos últimos anos, discussões sobre identidade de género tornaram recorrente, em protestos e manifestações, a frase “nós somos as netas das bruxas que vocês não conseguiram queimar”, uma provocação face ao patriarcado, elemento inquisidor da atualidade. Ser bruxa sempre foi associado a coisas más. A bruxa é a vilã de todos os contos. A bruxa tem que morrer. Foi o que aconteceu no passado. As mulheres acusadas de bruxaria eram “caçadas”: denunciadas, detidas, interrogadas, torturadas, julgadas e, se condenadas, queimadas na fogueira. Caça às Bruxas é uma publicação que pensa o feminismo, questões de género e de raça, dando destaque às “bruxas” que enfeitiçam os nossos corações: mulheres poderosas, rebeldes, contra as regras machistas e misóginas da sociedade.
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“The stereotype of pink-for-girls versus blue-for-boys may be ubiquitous today, but it only gained traction in the mid-twentieth century.”
Steele, 2018
Real men wear pink
PARA
MENINA
Think pink. If you’re picturing ballerina shoes or a flouncy sundress – pretty, girlie, feminine things – then you’re way behind the times. These days, pink is popping up in the most unlikely places. Over hairy chests. Covering bulging biceps. Atop a buzz cut. This is the summer of the masculine pink. Rappers, politicians, business types – all dressed in bubble gum, cotton candy, sunset pinks. For them and other confident men, pink is the new white. “Pink is just fly,” said Kenny McAllister, who studies lifestyle trends at the New York- based marketing company AMPdi. “It’s big everywhere. Especially on men.” The springy color choice is surprising – not just because for ages, men have been prisoners to the dark, drab latter half of the color spectrum, but also because pink has long been stereotyped as only for girls. Today’s fashion-forward man is rejecting that idea. “I think it actually shows confidence in your masculinity,” said “The Apprentice” runner- up Kwame Jackson, who more than once this winter was shown across the boardroom table from The Donald wearing a natty pink shirt. “It shows you have like a subtle flair.” Jackson likes the look so much, he’s including at least two pink or pink-accented shirts in a line of men’s clothing he hopes to launch in the fall – a sign that the color isn’t just for summer apparel. In fact, experts say, pink is only going to get hotter – figuratively and literally. At the recent men’s fashion shows in Milan, observers noticed much brighter colors – hotter pinks as well as brighter oranges, purples and yellows. Passion fruit for the manly man. “I’m expecting pink to be a trend for the next year,” said Stan Williams, fashion editor at Maxim. “And I think it’ll be even bigger next summer than this summer.” The pastel trend may have started with the flashand-dash hip-hop crowd, McAllister said – a daring group that often takes its cues from over-the-top fashionistas, such as the ultra-bold Donatella Versace. In the last several months, rap star and fashion award-winner P. Diddy has turned heads sporting palepink suits to see-and-be-seen events. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons has been photographed in striped pink polos and pink baseball caps. Rappers Fat Joe and Cam’ron
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pink has become‘the color of sexual difference’
unabashedly rock pink from head to toe; even Cam’ron’s tricked-out SUV is pink. Now, the ubiquitous white T-shirt worn by every inner-city teenage boy in America is being replaced with Pepto pink tees or pink polo-style shirts. Baggy jean shorts, unlaced Timberland boots and a crisp, pink three-button polo. Go figure. “The pink trickled down from the fashion heads to the fly guys to the masses,” McAllister said. But pink isn’t confined to R&B crooners and corner boys. In just the latest reminder that the ‘80s have returned, preppy pink has become about as hot now as it was during the heyday of Miami Vice and The Breakfast Club. Political observers have spotted Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in pink ties on the campaign trail. Former President Bill Clinton has worn a pink tie at book signings and interviews across the country – most notably on a recent Oprah segment, where he and the show’s pretty-in-pink host were color-coordinated. “There’s a larger kind of preppy revitalization coming on across the board, and pink is sort of a staple within that fashion palette,” said Peter Hyman, author of an upcoming book called “The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life.” Beyond the closet, Pink isn’t just for clothes. Liz Kennedy, a spokeswoman for jewelry.com, said that men are buying more exotic stones in shades of pink. A pink stone set in pink gold has become the height of fashion, she said. Soccer great David Beckham – the ultimate metrosexual – is known for experimenting with pink in his jewelry, and rapper Jay-Z has added some rose colored ice to his bling. Last month, Seagram’s beverage company launched a new flavored malt drink aimed at men. Its name, Pink Dragon, gives away the research-based color.
The Baltimore Sun, 2014
“The soberness of men’s apparel is a significant historical development, related to the rise of capitalism and democracy and to a heightened emphasis on gender differences.”
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“The punk reveled in ‘bad taste’. Bands such as The Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, X-Ray Spex, and the Jesus and Mary Chain all used Ultra pink on their album covers.” 10
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Steele, 2018
“In the 1970s, the invenction of fluorescent colors – Ultra pink for example – appealed to a generation attracted to their artificiality and garishness (...)In 1978 the punk band X-Ray Spex released a single titled ‘The Day the World Turned Day-Glo’.”
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Véronique Hyland’s influential 2016 article ‘Is There Some Reason Millenial Women Love This Color?’ led to the recognition of Millennial pink and suggested that its popularity was related to ‘a moment of ambivalent girliness’.
Millennial pink represents a kind of ironic prettiness, or post-prettiness. It’s a way to be pretty while retaining your intellectual detachment. It’s a wish that prettiness could de-problematised.
The Guardian, 2017
Steele, 2018
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THIS IS THE PINK, WE THINK.
Millenial pink was ‘cool and androgynous’ until it became ‘a hyper-commercialized trend’ and ‘lost is cool’. By 2017, the shade was ‘officially dead’. Yet, perhaps it is not important if pink is no longer the ‘in’ color if it has, at least in past, accomplished its gender-bending mission. THE 12
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(...) Imagine you were an aesthetically discriminating alien exploring our strange planet. Your first question -- other than the whole “Bachelor franchise” issue and the whole “that guy is really the Republican nominee?” thing -- might be why everything that is marketed to a certain segment of the female population -- 25- to 40-year-olds, say, who live in cities, have disposable income, and are artistically inclined -- has been slowly turning this BandAid-ish color, like something out of the Rapture. Remember when pink was déclassé? Pink used to be Malibu Barbie and Bubble Yum and all the bright plastic items that many of us in this particular group were steered away from as kids. And that specific shade of pink is not the one that’s resurfaced. Instead it’s ironic pink, pink without the sugary prettiness. It’s a noncolor that doesn’t commit, whose semi-ugliness is proof of its sophistication. A cohort raised to distrust pink has turned contrarian and embraced a muddied, faded version of the color. This summer, we’re conspicuously reading Sweetbitter, drinking a matching glass of frosé, and Instagramming it all with our rose-gold iPhones. Instead of the minimalism that’s dominated fashion for the past few years, we’re firmly into maximal, ruffled, not-pink pink from the Gucci resort collection (or its Zucci equivalent). We’re in a moment of ambivalent girliness -- a moment in which we celebrate, say, Hillary cracking the glass ceiling but can’t quite get into the human embodiment of magenta, Katy Perry, stumping for her, themed nail art and all. We’re embracing our girlier impulses: our vocal fry, the “likes” and “ums” we were told would hold us back, our #girlboss-ness. (Want to take a guess as to the color of that book cover? Yes, it was not-pink pink.) But we’re not quite there yet. We still have to hold something back. There’s still an implicit divide between women who lean into honest-to-God pink and all that it implies, and women who are allergic to that kind of thing. By all means, enjoy whatever color you like -- revel in mustard or taupe or chartreuse if that’s what makes you happy. Dress like Barbie or Fran Drescher or Fran Lebowitz, if you want. But ask yourself: Do I like this because I like this or because I’m buying back my own re-packaged childhood in the form of blush-toned lip gloss and stickers? Because the Pantone industrial complex is direct-marketing to my generation?
The Guardian, 2017
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Some say it [Millennial pink] started in 2014, with Wes Anderson’s movie The Grand Budapest Hotel, which embodies a kind of arch retro-kitsch and is centred on a building painted several kinds of pink. Anderson’s fealty to all things analog might seem defiant, borderline selfdefeating. How else to explain why
Wes Anderson didn’t just tell a storywithin-a-story about murder, purplesuited lobby boys, and prison breaks–he created an entire universe.
the trains in the film were actually made of cardboard; the majestic Pepto-Bismol pink Grand Budapest Hotel itself, was a 9-foot-tall model; and the pastry boxes from the fictional Mendl’s Bakery didn’t magically fall open as they appeared to; rather, somebody hiding under a table pulled them open with a fishing line?
The fictional Eastern European land called Zubrowka has its own original architecture, money, fashions, and government documents. And all this was, for the most part, built by hand, without much computer manipulation. 14
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“Wes prefers to do things in an analog or handmade way whenever he can,”
Seitz tells Co.Design. “It’s one thing that makes him so unique. He’s got the sensibility of a graphic illustrator. No other major American filmmaker is working in that vein.” It fell to production designer Adam Stockhausen (Moonrise Kingdom) to create the elaborate mirages of The Grand Budapest Hotel, which he likens to those of a science fiction film. His strategy was a painstaking one: to design the movie frame by frame, shot by shot.
It’s this loyalty to old-fashioned methods instead of slavery to technology’s convenience that lends the production design of The Grand Budapest Hotel its idiosyncratic charm and ultimately makes the film more believable. 15
Dunne, 2015
“Tricks like that create a different sort of energy when you use them in a film,” Seitz says. “There’s something enchanting about them.” They convey the great care being taken with each tiny detail in the film, which invites the audience to care more.
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Riot Grrrl, the feminist punk movement born in the early 1990s in Washington state, was the perfect storm of time and place.
Riot Grrrl was a reaction to this, as well as a way for young women to express their feelings at the sexism they faced in a supposedly postfeminism world.
The 1970s and 1980s saw the success of female punk singers – such as Siouxsie Sioux and Patti Smith –
And in the world of Riot Grrrl, young women had more power than they realised. Defined by a feminist agenda and expressed through music, zines and a DIY philosophy, bands Bikini Kill and Bratmobile were at the heart of the movement. Allegedly, Bratmobile member Jen Smith used the phrase ‘riot girl’ in a letter to bandmate Allison Wolfe, to reflect the growing feminist mood. Wolfe then collaborated with Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill on a zine and called it Riot Grrrl – adding the extra ‘r’s to angrily reclaim the word.
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Riot Grrrl bands and zines encouraged women to have a voice in the male world of punk and beyond. On and off stage, they trackled issues of rape, domestic violence, sexuality, female empowerment and slut shaming. Bate, 2018
It was also a form of consciousness raising, with collectives encouraging women to meet and share their experiences.
The moment has been criticised for being made up of almost exclusively white women and ignoring the experiences of women of colour.
But Riot Grrrl mus also be remembered for what they did achieve, namely igniting a feminist movement that listened to the needs of young women.
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No sentido literal, a roda remete para a ‘roda dos expostos’. Partindo do sentido negativo de orfandade associado à roda, as autoras investem ainda o vocábulo de um sentido lúdico, que alude ao ‘jogo da roda’, um jogo tradicional infantil geralmente praticado por meninas. A roda sugere uma atitude provocadora de exposição e de autonomia.
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Em 1972, ainda sob a ditadura salazarista, são publicadas as ‘Novas Cartas Portuguesas’, onde são reveladas muitas situações discriminatórias e lesivas para a mulher em Portugal. O título da obra é inspirado na obra francesa “Lettres Portugaises”, de Claude Barbin, a partir das cartas escritas pela freira portuguesa Mariana Alcoforado, após ser deixada pelo seu amado, o cavaleiro francês Noel Bouton, no contexto da Guerra da Restauração no século XVII.
Beja remete para a localização do Real Mosteiro da Nossa Senhora da Conceição, o convento onde Soror Mariana foi enclausurada, sendo esta referência reforçada pela palavra ‘cal’, que sugere a típica arquitectura alentejana. Lisboa e as suas calçadas, por oposição, remetem para o contexto espacial de produção da obra.
Alusão ao cavaleiro amado de Soror Mariana Alcoforado e o destinatário de “Lettres Portugaises”.
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(...) Só que Beja ou Lisboa, de cal ou de calçada – há sempre uma clausura pronta a quem levanta a grimpa contra os usos: freira não copula mulher parida e laureada escreve mas não pula (e muito menos se o fizer a três) com a Literatura, LITERATURA, não se faz rodinhas – porém, ledores, haveis comprado Mariana e nós, tendo ela montado o cavaleiro e bem
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Considerai a cláusula proposta, a desclausura, a exposição de meninas na roda, paridas a esconsas da matriz de três. Moças só meio meninas bem largadas da casa de seus pais e arrematadas já seus dotes em leilão de país. Nem vai ser isto, pois não é?
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Ephemera - Biblioteca e Arquivo de José Pacheco Pereira
Celebrar a liberdade em casa
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SOBRETUDO ÀS QUESTÕES ÉTICAS, SOCIAIS E POLÍTICAS QUE ESTA PANDEMIA LEVANTA.
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O QUE IMPLICA, EM CONCRETO, SER UM HOMEM, UM HOMEM VERDADEIRO?
Repressão das emoções. Calar a sua própria sensibilidade. Ter vergonha da sua fragilidade, da sua vulnerabilidade. Deixar a infância bruscamente e de uma maneira definitiva: os homens-criança não têm boa imprensa. Ter angústias com o tamanho da pila. Saber fazer gozar as mulheres sem que elas saibam ou queiram indicar a maneira de lá chegar. Não mostrar fraqueza. Amordaçar a sua sensualidade. Vestir-se com cores neutras, usar sempre os mesmos sapatos pesadões, não brincar com os cabelos, não usar demasiadas jóias, nem nenhuma maquilhagem. Dever dar o primeiro passo, sempre. Não ter nenhuma cultura sexual para melhorar o seu orgasmo. Não saber pedir ajuda. Dever ser corajoso mesmo que não se tenha nenhuma vontade de o ser. Valorizar a força seja qual for a sua natureza. Dar provas de agressividade. Ter um acesso restrito à paternidade. Triunfar socialmente, para conseguir as melhores mulheres. Temer a homossexualidade, porque um homem, um verdadeiro, não deve ser penetrado. Não brincar com bonecas quando se é pequeno, contentar-se com carrinhos e armas de plástico horrorosas. Não cuidar do seu corpo. Estar sujeito à brutalidade dos outros homens sem se queixar. Saber defender-se, mesmo que se seja pacífico. Estar cortado da sua feminilidade, simetricamente às mulheres que renunciam à sua virilidade, não em função das necessidades de uma situação ou de uma personalidade, mas em função do que exige o corpo colectivo.
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PARA QUE, SEMPRE, AS MULHERES DÊEM OS FILHOS PARA A GUERRA, E OS HOMENS ACEITEM DEIXAR-SE MATAR PARA SALVAR OS INTERESSES DE TRÊS OU QUATRO IMBECIS DE VISTAS CURTAS.
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King Kong funciona aqui como a metáfora de uma sexualidade anterior à distinção de género, tal como foi imposta politicamente por volta dos finais do século ���. King Kong está para além da fêmea e para além do macho. Encontra-se na charneira entre o homem e o animal, o adulto e a criança, o bom e o mau, o primitivo e o civilizado, o branco e o negro. Híbrido, anterior à obrigação do binário. A ilha deste filme é a possibilidade de uma forma de sexualidade polimorfa e hiperpotente. OR
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“We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. Our anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from who we might be: we could be anyone and we are everywhere. We believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair.�
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11 From Guerrilla Grils’ project at Whitechapel Gallery, London. 2016 12 The U.S. Senate is more progressive than Hollywood, update. 13 Unchain the Woman directors billboard. 14 The anatomically correct Oscar. 15 In 2016 Guerrilla Girls re-examined a 1986 poster (It’s Even Worse in Europe) to find out how things were going for women and artists of color in Europe. 16 Pop Up Quiz (update). 17 Poster about the mfc - michèle didier gallery itself. 18 Advantages of owning your own art museum-Deutsh for the 40th anniversary of the museum Museum Ludwig, founded by chocolate baron Peter Ludwig. 19 “Why has 87% of Icelandic film centre funding gone to men?” 20 “Dear Art Collector” stickers.
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