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Cindy Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Untitled #153 is a color photograph made by Cindy Sherman in 1985. In 2010, a print was auctioned for $2.7 million, making it one of the most expensive photographs ever sold at that time. The picture resulted from an invitation of the magazine Vanity Fair to create a series of photographs inspired by fairy tales. The photographs would never be published by the magazine but are amongst some of her best and more representative work. They tend to be more dark and grotesque than the sources where it is supposed to have taken inspiration, and aren’t directly inspired by any specific fairy tale. The current picture is, like its usual in the artist, a self-portrait, depicting a woman, lying in the ground as a corpse, covered with mud in what appears to be a natural environment.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is an American artist, activist, and freelance illustrator. In 2012 Fazlalizadeh gained notoriety when she began to use street art to speak out against the street harassment of women. Her poster campaign, Stop Telling Women to Smile (STWTS), was based upon interviews conducted with women about their experiences of public sexual harassment. Each poster features a portrait of a woman, along with a caption responding to her experience. Captions include statements such as “My outfit is not an invitation” and “No, you can’t talk to me for a minute.” The campaign offers women an opportunity to fight back against their harassers. Published in 2020, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power, documents Fazlalizadeh’s street art project. The book includes excerpts from the original interviews and images from STWTS, revealing Fazlalizadeh’s process and providing a “contribution to the important conversation about endemic sexism.”

Alicia Eggert is an American artist known for her installations. This animated neon sign was made to illuminate the importance of abortion access at a critical time in history. It cycles endlessly through the statements “OUR BODIES,” “OUR FUTURES,” and “OUR ABORTIONS.” The constant interchangeability of those three statements serves to highlight their inseparability — how a person’s control over their own body determines how much control they have over their future, and how access to abortions is an essential part of that control. Designed to be a mobile sign, the sculpture was first displayed at the Supreme Court of the United States before it was taken on a road trip to states across the country that were criminalizing abortion.

Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Songbird Supreme", Carey is known for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, signature use of the whistle register, and diva persona.

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Lainey Molnar is a Hungarian illustrator and content creator known for her empowering comics that address women’s rights and societal issues. Molnar creates relatable comics that tackle various topics, including body image, motherhood, and sexism. She aims to empower women through her art, addressing how society perceives and expects women.

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country’s popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird is a 1940 self-portrait by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo which also includes a black cat, a monkey, and two dragonflies. It was painted after Kahlo’s divorce from Diego Rivera and the end of her affair with photographer Nickolas Muray.

Olivia Locher is an American photographer. She gained notoriety for her photography series breaking an eccentric law from each of the 50 States of the Union, entitled I Fought the Law. A monograph of this project was released by Chronicle Books in September 2017. Locher is known for her sarcastic approach to studio photography with a heavy focus on color and concept.

Doreen Garner is an American sculptor and performance artist. Her art practice explores where history, power, and violence meet on the body via beauty or medicine. In the spring of 2019, Garner created a showcase entitled She is Risen. This showcase was held at JTT in New York. It featured several sculptures, one of which honored Betsy Ross and Betsey titled, “Betsey’s Flag.” The sculpture is a flag shape in which one side features a flag to look like the original made by Betsy Ross, and the other side features flesh, blood, fat cells, and muscle tissue. The 16 stars on the flag were to represent the amount of cots within the lab of J. Marion Sims instead of the 16 states.

Alice Coltrane was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader. An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, Coltrane recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels. She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967. One of the foremost proponents of spiritual jazz, her eclectic music proved influential both within and outside the world of jazz.

Sarah Beth Goncarova is an American writer, composer, and visual artist known for environmental experiential light-sound installations, poetry, children’s adventure novels, and writing for film and television.
“This piece was inspired by current events, namely, the Syrian Refugee Crisis. I wanted to portray the children affected by the crisis, to remind people that each child will hold what they see and experience in their heart always.”

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Ethel Bentham was a progressive medical doctor, a politician and a suffragist in the United Kingdom. She was born in London, educated at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, the London School of Medicine for Women and the Rotunda Hospital. In 1909, Bentham moved to London, where her home served as a meeting place for like-minded women. She established a practice in North Kensington and was an expert on childhood enuresis (bedwetting) and an early believer in what would now be called socialised medicine. In 1911, Bentham was a driving force behind the establishment of a mother and baby clinic in North Kensington, founded by the Women's Labour League. The clinic was the first in the country to provide medical treatment alongside advice. Bentham served as the clinic's chief medical officer, and benefactor, underwriting its expenses.

Michelle Shocked is an American singer-songwriter. Her music has entered the Billboard Hot 100, been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and received an award for Folk Album of the Year at the CMJ New Music Awards. Shocked is a vocal critic of Spotify and its low pay rates for artists, declaring that "None of my music will be on there until they commit to a sustainable rate rather than suing songwriters." She has also refused to allow her music to be on iTunes, YouTube, or Amazon Music.