Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina

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WHEN: The 1st and the 15th of each month words and images will highlight the joy and the challenges of being both a mother and an artist. Victoria Justice exiting the Rebecca Minkoff fashion show held during New York Fashion Week in New York City on February 7, 2014 18. Kimberley Garner

Weber-Lehmann, C. (1997/2000)) "Anasyrma und Götterhochzeit. Ein orientalisches Motiv im nacharchaischen Etrurien", in: Akten des Kolloquiums zum Thema: Der Orient und Etrurien. Zum Phänomen des 'Orientalisierens' im westlichen Mittelmeerraum. Tübingen.Kristen Bell just found another use for double-sided tape: on overlap-front dresses with dangerously high slits. Victoria Justice remains fabulous in Rebecca Minkoff’s gladiator sandals while narrowly escaping a wardrobe malfunction.

There is an inherent contradiction between the physical demands Canavan places upon her body and the stillness that is matched by the slow passage of time. Imagine a world where girls and women are told stories fostering a sense of pride and potency in what it means to have a vagina. Stories valuing female genitalia; stories revealing the vagina to be the ultimate symbol of female power. These stories exist: they are ‘raising the skirt’ stories. Everyone with a vagina should know them. WHAT: The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are partnering for bi-monthly on-line presentations featuring M.A.M.A. – Mothers are Making Art. The wind is a friend of fashion photography editorials, but as the following women know, it can also be a formidable foe. 1. Queen Maxima Thomson De Grummond, Nancy. (2006) Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology. ISBN 1-931707-86-3More info about DIY 11: 2014. Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists across the UK. To read Andrea O’Reilly’s piece on Feminist Motherhood go to our link here, and read her piece also live online at ProCreate Project. Art and Performance by Nicola Canavan: Raising the Skirt this was an amazing experience and ultimately I feel spending a short and intensive period of time with these fellow artists has enriched my practice. Dear Duchess Kate, we hope you find solace in our list of celebrities who have also had their dresses and skirts caught in the wind! We just want to let Kate Middleton know that she isn’t the only one who has suffered a wind-related wardrobe malfunction. In fact, it’s happened to plenty of other high-profile celebrities, including one other royal.

She believes parents should just say vagina and vulva, but suggests that “if the UK wants a new non-anatomical word, my vote is for verenda. It’s an old word for the vagina and means ‘the parts that inspire awe or respect’. Grace, gravitas and a great provenance combined.” I wish I had been told these stories as a girl. Stories fostering a sense of pride and potency in being female. Stories valuing female genitalia, valuing girls and women. I like to imagine a world where every girl and woman knows these stories of how powerful it is to have a vagina. I have collected many ‘raising the skirt’ stories but I know there are more out there – if you have an account of how mighty the vagina is from your culture’s mythology, history or folklore then please share it with me. As an applicant, you must wish to participate in the creation of a photographic art piece and a performance where we will raise our skirts, proudly presenting ourselves to the world; you will be part of something special – a community, a piece of photographic artwork and a live documented performance.Kelly Brook at the Pandora Oxford Street store launch party in London, England on September 5, 2013 10. Paula Abdul I collect ‘Raising the Skirt’ stories: stories about women lifting their skirts to reveal their vaginas and making a vast array of extraordinary actions happen: averting evil, protecting families and communities and conferring fertility to the land and people. When fertility goddess Demeter wanders the earth refusing food and drink as she mourns the loss of her daughter Persephone (who is imprisoned in the underworld after being abducted by Hades), the land loses its energy source, crops shrivel and famine ensues. It’s only when older woman Baubo lifts her gown and points out her naked vagina to the goddess that Demeter finally laughs and accepts sustenance and the world becomes fecund once more. Japan tells a remarkably similar myth of how vaginal display restores fertility to the earth after angered sun goddess Amaterasu-o-mi-Kame has withdrawn from the world. Isis-Aphrodite 2nd-1stC BCE Cameron Diaz is caught by the wind while filming on the set of ‘Knight and Day’ in Boston, Massachusetts on September 28, 2009 6. Megan Fox