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Courtney Connors

"Cuentos de Hadas" (Fairy Tales) Art Exhibition - 2 views

  • “Cuentos de Hadas” (Fairy Tales)
  • female vs. male versions of fairy tales
  • Gertz’s fairy tale series asks us to consider where women are in the 21st century. Her heroines are unapologetic symbols of female confidence. We sense in them a comfort with the body, with play and decoration. They confidently own the sensual, and relish in being a woman in charge.
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  • the docile, young body gets the prince, that the girl brave enough to venture into the woods—the space of men--meets her fate at the hands of the big bad wolf. Peter Pan lives forever as a boy, Wendy must grow up--it is her calling, her duty, her essential nature
  • A Prayer For Juarez, A Curse On The Killers
  • As part of A Prayer for Juarez, a network of companion exhibits will take place in March
  • Juarez City No More Femicide At the International Women's Day Rally at the Sydney Town Hall
  • Femicide
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    This website lays out a description of and a schedule for the "Cuentos de Hadas (Fairy Tales) Art Exhibtion at Avenue 50 Studio, Inc. in California. It is the intent of the artists' collections to display the discrepancy between the assumed and enforced male and female gender roles within fairy tales. The physical appearance, control of emotions, and psychological mind-set of the leading heroin and hero roles are pre-destined and the same stereotypes in most fairy tales. This exhibition asks the viewer to acknowledge this fact and address the underlying issues and implications within it. Furthermore, the weekend of the Art display is a march where participants will march in the name of a prayer for Juarez, Mexico where Femicide is both an immediate and devastating reality.
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    I LOVE this idea! Since I seem to be in connection mode... this really made me consider the fairy tales and new renditions of fairy tales and short stories I read over the past month for my English class, "Romancing the Novel." Typical tales do seem to subjugate women, and set them up for interactions of violence towards and against them, while the Angela Carter renditions of past fairy tales set up new heroines much like this artwork is attempting to do. Also, I think it is great that the institution and artist are relating these works to the Femicide in Juarez. Rather than make art for arts sake, they are trying to force more impact and meaning within the work, and this really appeals to me. It is scary to think that most young girls are read or watch the more traditional versions of fairy tales... perhaps this sets us/them up for ignorance of violence against women???
Kelly Westphal

Bordertown - 0 views

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    This is Amnesty Internationals page dedicated to the movie "Bordertown" and the killing in Juarez, Mexico. It has a lot of interesting links connected with these issues. 
Iraimi Mercado

Comment & Analysis: Femicide in Central America (Yeny Giraldo/Alborada.net) | www.albor... - 0 views

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    This is an analysis of the issue of Femicide from the point of view of three Central American activists who are from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. These three activists analyze Femicide and the impact that it has had on women from a political, economic and social. It is interesting to see the similarities that the three countries have and how clear we can see the patterns within three different viewpoints.
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