Today’s earlier post about this weekend’s WISC Symposium, “Risk and Reinvention: How Women are Changing the World,” praised the impressive women speakers including several from the millennial generation. Two of those voices, young activists and feminists, included Courtney E. Martin and Naomi Natale. I was so impressed by these young women that I was motivated to research them and their work. Oakland based Courtney Martin is an author, columnist, speaker, blogger and new mother. In her latest book, Do it Anyway: The New Generation of Activists, Martin profiles eight young women doing social justice work. Her first book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters carries a subtitle, “How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women.” Martin was a founding editor of Feministing, the most highly read feminist publication in the world. Naomi Natale is an installation artist, photographer, and social practice artist noted for her large-scale installations including the Cradle Project and One Million Bones Project. The Cradle Project is a fundraising art installation of one thousand cradles and cribs made by artisans around the world; they represent the plight of the estimated 48 million children who have been orphaned by disease and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The One Million Bones project, founded in 2009 by Natale, collected 1,000,000 handmade bones to raise awareness of the ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in places like Sudan, the Congo, Somali and Burma. It became a three-day installation event on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in June 2013. Naomi Natale is the Co-Founder of the Art of Revolution, an organization dedicated to leveraging the power of art to inspire activism. To learn more about these young women and to hear their remarkable voices, go to the following links: ted/talks/courtney_martin_reinventing_feminism https://youtube/watch?v=yNYVvyGrHD8
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:17:50 +0000
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