Guerilla Girls
By Jess McCabe | 9 May 2009, 10:52
(Via Bitch Magazine)
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Alex T said:
I friggin love Guerrilla Girls! They were one of my first introductions to feminism.
Posted on 09 May 2009 at 11:33 AM
Cura E said:
Im sorry to be ignorant, but do they call themselves the Guerilla "girls" in an ironic sense?
Posted on 10 May 2009 at 2:21 PM
Jess McCabe said:
@Cura E - Yes, I think so. In an interview on their website they answer the question like this:
Q. Why do you call yourselves 'girls?' Doesn't that upset a lot of feminists?Gertrude Stein: Yeah. We wanted to be shocking. We wanted people to be upset.
Frida Kahlo: Calling a grown woman a girl can imply she's not complete, mature, or grown-up. But we decided to reclaim the word “girl”, so it couldn't be used against us. Gay activists did the same thing with the epithet “queer.”
Posted on May 10, 2009 11:32 PM
Cura E said:
Oh i see now, thankyou for that
Posted on 11 May 2009 at 9:30 AM
sianmarie said:
YES! i love them! such an inspirational group of women
Posted on 11 May 2009 at 11:09 AM