Veilotics

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“Suspended Together” is an installation that gives the impression of movement and freedom. However, a closer look at the 200 doves allows the viewer to realize that the doves are actually frozen and suspended with no hope of flight. An even closer look shows that each dove carries on its body a permission document that allows a Saudi woman to travel. Notwithstanding their circumstances, all Saudi women are required to have this document, issued by their appointed male guardian.

The artist reached out to a large group of leading women from Saudi Arabia to donate their permission documents for inclusion in this artwork. “Suspended Together” carries the documents of award-winning scientists, educators, journalists, engineers, artists and leaders with groundbreaking achievements that gave back to their society. The youngest contributor is six months old and the oldest is 60 years old. In the artist’s words, “regardless of age and achievement, when it comes to travel, all these women are treated like a flock of suspended doves.”

(Source: manaldowayan.com)

(Source: mohamedashraf)

ontologicalterrorist:

Herat, Afghanistan: a burqa-clad woman walks through a tunnel~~, into the light~~

Perhaps I protest too much, but I found the reference to the women walking “into the light” pretty jarring

(Source: Guardian)

abudai:

Libyan grannies are cooler than you.

(via @BentBenghazi)

(Source: abudaii)

iraninimage:

Photo by: Nasrollah Kasraian / Face of a herds woman (in Baluchestan) descended from those who in the distant past where brought to Iran as slaves / Late 80s

(Source: royalmontgomery)

Saving the Second Sex or How Aid Fails Women

It’s not an accident that the word paternalistic is the notion of father taking care of and supporting. A lot of discourse in aid is often about helping women and children. Aid agencies offer this appealing image of innocent women and children that are helpless and need our help. But who is the “we” that is implied by that? Our help. Who is at the other end? If you go through a bunch of aid brochures online, I bet that in the vast majority of them you will not see any adult males. You will only see women and children. Even just in the sheer visual imagery we use in aid, it’s really about rich, white males indulging their own paternalistic fantasies for rescuing non-white women and children.

nehrujackets:

T.V. Santhosh /////// UNTITLED 5 ///// 2010 ///////Watercolour on paper /////22.5 x 30 in

Women in Iran’s Kurdistan province (1980s)

kalashnikovs:

5:30 am at the logistics camp. 18 year olds Zilan holds Sweetness the kitten while a mule train prepares to leave. The PKK believe in living as one with nature and share their camps with both domestic and wild animals, such as tamed squirrels and rabbits.

Someday, I will find the time to research the media representation of the women of the PKK

tarrifiq:

Role of Palestinian Women in Resistance (Abdul Hay Mosallam)

"There is a real void within mainstream feminist discourse that has marginalized the very women whom it has allegedly sought to empower and “save.” Feminism is still very much a white woman’s movement and discipline; it has tokenized women it sees as “of colour” in its attempt to be more inclusive and universal. This is not progress: this is not equality. This is a kinder racism: unintentional, and really a part of an institutionalized mentality and epistemic history, but racism nevertheless."

-Sana Saeed