I absolutely can't get enough of this statue, Kiki Smith's Lilith. I've probably visited it close to a dozen times (at Boston's MFA! go check it out!), and it never fails to stop me in my tracks. It is mesmerizing and surprising and frightening and informative and basically everything that I think art should be.
And as that probably makes clear, discussions of feminism and gender issues are something that I get hyperbolically excited about. I'm also having considerable difficulty limiting everything that I find relevant to one or two news stories. Yes, many of these issues are contemporary and ongoing, but they're also so deeply rooted in our social structures, in our relationships, in our very bodies, that it seems difficult to skim at the now.
So have some bell hooks.
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