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Art & Motherhood
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This blog is a series of thinking pieces based on my current research on
art & motherhood.
What is a mother? What could a mother be?
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Embracing My Courage: Redefining Bravery Beyond Motherhood
This is a poem I wrote After a woman told me I wasn't brave For not wanting more children Adding racist comment to injury. I am brave...
Arlette
Jun 101 min read
Now You See Us
Now You See Us - British Art and the Feminine.
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Dec 18, 20244 min read
PRETTY VIOLENT
“The history of women in the past hundred years is based on the very dangerous ‘crossing of the boundary’ imposed by patriarchal...
Arlette
Jun 11, 20244 min read
Shame, Shame, Shame!
"Women are taught to hate themselves." My friend Lucy “(...) unrealistic and idealised notions of motherhood that circulate (and) are...
Arlette
Feb 27, 20243 min read
SPEECH!
“I killed that man because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone.” Maya...
Arlette
Feb 8, 20242 min read
"The identity of the women is unclear."
"I decided I’m going to give you pregnancy in your face — and that’s what I did." Renée Cox I love Tate Britain Tate Britain sits right...
Arlette
Nov 23, 20233 min read
The sacred halo of motherhood
Contemporary women have been assigned a destiny: that of home carers and mothers. And for them to accept it smoothly, we crowned...
Arlette
Nov 13, 20231 min read
RISK
"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome....
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Oct 18, 20232 min read
I AM A FEMINIST!
"I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just 'Thumbs up for the six billion'." Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman " Feminism is not...
Arlette
Sep 12, 20233 min read
SO UNFAIR!
"What's fair ain't necessarily right." Toni Morrison, Beloved "Mum, it's so unfair!" My 7 year-old child "Don't talk to me about...
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Sep 6, 20232 min read
When Mary Frees The Nipple
"Cover this breast which I cannot behold: Such a sight can offend one's soul. And it brings forth guilty thoughts." Tartuffe, Molière...
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Aug 24, 20233 min read
QUEEN
A historical insight... QUEEN MELISENDE She reigned in Jerusalem during the twelfth century, at a time when women were rarely regents....
Arlette
Aug 24, 20231 min read
The Pregnant Woman - a Western Taboo?
Pregnancy in Art studies on the representation of pregnant women in Western art show that, after the Renaissance, pregnancy slowly became...
Arlette
Aug 24, 20231 min read
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