Top New York Artists Protested Outside Ivanka Trump's Soho Apartment Before Heading to Art Basel
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Top New York Artists Protested Outside Ivanka Trump's Soho Apartment Before Heading to Art Basel AOC Front Page
“Dear Ivanka,” the protest’s title and name of the Instagram account sending messages to Ivanka Trump, drew notable artists like Cecily Brown, Rob Pruitt, Ryan McNamara, Jonah Freeman, Dan Colen, and Marilyn Minter; as well as writers and curators like Wendy Vogel, Brian Droitcour, Zoë Lescaze, David Velasco, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Alison Gingeras, Carolyn Ramo, and Fabiola Alondra, along with dealers and advisors Jay Gorney, Bill Powers, and Erin Goldberger, ArtNews reports.
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Minter, who is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, told the New York Times of her involvement: “The culture changes, and fascism rears its ugly head every so often and that’s what’s happening now,” she said. “We wanted to do something to start to the ball rolling, to grow a protest, and we’re artists, so we know how to make posters.”
Patrick Demarchelier Captures 'The Now Beauty' With Sara Grace, Cara, Ellen and Jess For Vogue Italia January 2017
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Models Sara Grace Wallerstedt, Cara Taylor, Ellen Rosa, and Jess PW are styled by Elin Svahn for 'The Now Beauty'. Patrick Demarchelier is behind the lens for Vogue Italia January 2017./ Hair by James Pecis; Sally Branka
Melinda Gates Assumes Primary Role In Defending Women's Health & Reproductive Rights Worldwide
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Melinda Gates Assumes Primary Role In Defending Women's Health & Reproductive Rights Worldwide AOC Front Page
Pictured above on her first trip to Africa in 1993, Melinda Gates could now be the most important action hero for women worldwide. That includes America, where the Republican War on Women is in full swing with their commitment to defunding Planned Parenthood, rolling back not only abortion rights but rights to contraception as well, and focusing on personhood legislation, which not only establishes a legal definition of life as beginning at conception, but severely limiting the civil rights of all pregnant women by equating her rights with those of a 24-hour old fertilized egg.
With the rise of alt-right lover Donald Trump as America's next president, the Trump administration is surrounding themselves with officials who want to implement this full-court strategy against American women asap.
Without Hillary Clinton at the helm of the American presidency, the future of women's most precious rights probably falls to Melinda Gates, who is notably apolitical. The first order in a Trump administration will be once again cutting off any federal government support for contraception and family planning worldwide. America's Catholic bishops and Christian conservatives in Congress won't permit it.
Read on about Melinda Gates and her refusal to bow to these massive powers that dominate American culture.
