Performing Women

Items

• Movement and Shadows Stills

  A selection of three stills that capture movement and shadow work in front of a projector. The projector displays original video from creators house and showcases the creators suitemates. The filming took place within the common room of the apartment.
  
• Junru Wang Hand Balancing in "Dear San Fransisco"

  This is a video of Junru Wang’s hand balancing act in “Dear San Francisco”, a production of The 7 Fingers. “Dear San Francisco” is a circus conceived, created, and directed by Shana Carroll and Gypsy Snider and performed at Club Fugazi in San Francisco. The show premiered on October 12, 2021, and Junru Wang performed this hand balancing act from October 12, 2021, until January 8, 2022.
  
• Nonbinary Lion Dancers

  Two members of the Columbia University Lion Dance team perform what is known as a "stack" or "tower" trick inside a lion.
  
• Abortion Awareness in a feminist newspaper

  Clippings about abortion from Women's Press, an Oregon-based feminist newspaper. The collage includes the publication's masthead, one woman's experience getting an abortion in Eugene, with a handwritten note that reads "Laws against abortions kill women", art by Marcia Salo Rizzi that states "I am a woman giving birth to myself", and a news story about former President Gerald Ford vetoing a measure that would've provided daycares with the funds to meet federal standards.
  
• Greta Lee on The Joy Luck Hub Podcast

  A transcription of actress Greta Lee's interview with Audrey Woo on The Joy Luck Hub Podcast, discussing the challenges and rewards that come with her identity as an Asian woman in the film industry.
• Evolution of Alien's Ellen Ripley, on the page and in performance

  A chronological tracking of the evolution of the Alien franchise’s original protagonist, Ellen Ripley, specifically through how she first appears or is first described in each film’s screenplay. When applicable, every text excerpt is accompanied by a promotional still of Ripley from the corresponding film.
  
• My Tita's Hands

  A photograph taken by my ate (older Filipina cousin) of the hands of my tita (Filipina aunt) holding avocados as she prepares a meal in her kitchen.
  
• OutYouth

  (First Image) The inside of the front cover of the magazine, featuring the editor's note, staff list, and OutYouth Mission Statement. Goldsznycer urges youth from around the city to submit their creative materials to the magazine to be published, and the Mission Statement clarifies the goals of the magazine: to allow queer youth from across the city to express themselves through art that would not be supported elsewhere. (Second Image) The back cover of the magazine, featuring 19 community centers and resources for queer youth across the city. Services that these resources provided include legal services, medical care, HIV education, food pantry access, and more.
  
• Love, Mom

  Two handwritten sign-offs from two different letters, written so many times that they look the same.
  
• Boys Butches and Bros Poster

  The original poster used to advertise Boys, Butches, and Bros (Barnard's student club for transmasculine, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming students). The design is inspired by the first poster made by the legendary activist group The Lesbian Avengers.
  
• Redefining public persona through Instagram

  This collage features close-up images of Instagram videos of a Pakistani social media star and performer, Mathira Mohammad, and their impact on social discourse in the form of comments.
  
• QUESTION 6, 2024: Should the Nevada Constitution be amended to create an individual's fundamental right to an abortion?

  An image with selections from pages 1-2 and 47-52 of the 2024 Clark County, Nevada Official Sample Ballot. Selections appear from the cover page, table of contents, and from notes on State Question Number 6: "Should the Nevada Constitution be amended to create an individual's fundamental right to an abortion, without interference by state or local governments, whenever the abortion is performed by a qualified healthcare professional until fetal viability or when necessary to protect the health or life of the pregnant individual at any point during the pregnancy?" The full pages and description of State Question #6 are also included as they appear in the original Official Sample Ballot.
  
• 1940s-1950s Housewife Adverts

  Image No.: 30523402 Brand: Chase and Sanborn Origin: USA Decade: 1950s Image type: Magazine Advert Image No.: 30523404 Brand: Easy Origin: USA Decade: 1940s Image type: Magazine Advert Image No.: 30523402 Brand: Chase and Sanborn Origin: USA Decade: 1950s Image type: Magazine Advert Image No.: 30585996 Brand: Van Heusen Origin: UK Decade: 1950s Year: 1950 Image type: Magazine Advert Brand: Kohler Origin: USA Decade: 1940s Image type: Magazine Advert Image No.: 30528490 Brand: Hoover Origin: USA Decade: 1950s Image type: Magazine Advert Good Housekeeping, November 1942 Kohler Print Ad , 1961 National Home Monthly, January 1950 Mutual Life Print Advert 1946
  
• The Future is Elliot Rodger.

  This tweet gained widespread attention after Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong announced his marriage to Angela Meng. The tweet features images of tech company leaders and their partners at the same event, notably showing Armstrong’s ex-girlfriend, Indonesian actress Raline Shah, instead of Meng. It went viral, reaching 979K views after Jesse Powell retweeted it with the comment, “someone needs to study how much market cap is driven by Asian tiger wives.” The reference to Elliot Rodger, of Malaysian Chinese and British descent, invites complex discussions about multiracial marriage, misogyny, and incel ideology. Asian women are often at the forefront of fetishistic stereotypes, implying that their relationships must not be rooted in genuine love.
  
• Royal Red

  Oil on canvas painting by artist Raja Ravi Varma in 1880. The painting depicts the artist's mother in law wearing a regal red shawl indicating her social status as a Royal. She is representative of women in the matriarchal period in which she exists.
  
• Sem Amor Nada

  Para Mimi, Tia Leila, e Siena, com a esperança de lembrar sempre de onde veio, e carregar sempre o amor pra onde vou.
  
• Redefining public persona through Instagram

  This collage features close-up images of Instagram videos of a Pakistani social media star and performer, Mathira Mohammad, and their impact on social discourse in the form of comments.
  
• QUESTION 6, 2024: Should the Nevada Constitution be amended to create an individual's fundamental right to an abortion?

  An image with selections from pages 1-2 and 47-52 of the 2024 Clark County, Nevada Official Sample Ballot. Selections appear from the cover page, table of contents, and from notes on State Question Number 6: "Should the Nevada Constitution be amended to create an individual's fundamental right to an abortion, without interference by state or local governments, whenever the abortion is performed by a qualified healthcare professional until fetal viability or when necessary to protect the health or life of the pregnant individual at any point during the pregnancy?" The full pages and description of State Question #6 are also included as they appear in the original Official Sample Ballot.
• SCUM Manifesto (1977)

  This a political pamphlet published in 1977 by Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist known for the attempted assassination of Andy Warhol in 1968 and founder of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men). This edition of the manifesto follows the bankruptcy of Olympia Press, a publisher that published two unauthorised editions of SCUM Manifesto (in 1968 and 1970) under an incorrect title, containing several typographical errors and unsanctioned edits, and disregarding all edits that were requested by Solanas in 1968. Following the reacquisition of the rights to her Manifesto, Solanas published this six-page "CORRECT Valerie Solanas edition".
  
• Performance/Gathering

  Nine stills of digitized tape. Four of the images, which come from the first quarter of the tape, feature performer Kathleen Hardy in a solo-show simply titled "The Performance." In the stills Hardy wears sunglasses and a large, black blazer. She stands before the audience and sits at a piano. Five of the images, which come from the later portion of the tape, show a group of people convening together in an outdoor space.
  
• Scanned copy of “The Effects of Maternal Employment and Educational Attainment on the Sex-Typed Attributes of College Females”

  A scanned copy of a printed packet of paper, stapled together in the format of a lab report, which is broken down into an Abstract, Background, Method, and Results and Discussion section--the results of a scientific experiment reprinted in 1973 which "tested the hypothesis that differences in maternal sex-typed behavior as manifested by working outside the home and advanced educational attainment would be related to the sex-typed characteristics of daughters". The document is 9 pages in length including a resources and footnotes page, as well as the title page.
  
• “Go feed my lambs…”

  The Barnard Bulletin is a student publication traditionally printed on newspaper highlighting student and alumni life, campus events, and their connections to current affairs as seen in the piece on the Biafran war.
  
• The False Hair-Piece (a short story)

  An Arab-feminist short story embedded within the "On Women in Management" issue of Al-Raida.
  
• Nancy Friday

  A photograph of Nancy Friday from her archives. Her writing explored themes of female sexuality, pleasure, liberation, lesbian love, sexual fantasies, shame, the hidden lives of women, and social expectation.
  
• Feminists Fighting Pronography

  The Feminists Fighting Pornography (FFP) group published this irregularly issued serial from 1984-1989 with a total of 6 issues. In addition to articles linking violence against women to the pornography industry, this issue lists boycotted products and movie reviews focused on the depiction of gender-based violence. FFP was notable for supporting a legislative initiative to allow rape victims to sue pornography companies for damages.