A feminist postsecret

I absolutely love this. It is a youtube video similar to what the postsecret project does, but is exclusively for women. The video entitled “What are Your Dreams for Women?” asks for postcard art which to answer the question stated. The video shows some examples of what people have mailed into the Vancouver based group Antigone Magazine. This video brings up a lot of the issues we’ve discussed throughout our course in Women’s Studies, from images of femininity and beauty, gender, women’s bodies and health, women in politics, rape and violence. Through drawings, clippings from magazines, paint and decoupage a single postcard can be dramatically changed to point towards social action and a message. If you check out the Antigone Magazine website you can see even more examples. As you scroll down you’ll come to a scanned image of a typed letter, you can read about how this project has been used as a form of therapy for girls at an eating disorder hospital. Also, donations are taken to promote young women to be aware of politics and civil rights. I feel that this is the perfect post to end with, as it includes art and women’s issues all in one.

Lastly, in relation to our final project which needs some form of artistic muse or creation of our own, this could be an example of what you could come up with. I have also included the postsecret link for those of you who are interested. Enjoy!