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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Flawless by Beyoncé

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Flawless by Beyoncé

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"We teach girls to shrink themselves
To make themselves smaller
We say to girls
"You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man"
Because I am female
I am expected to aspire to marriage
I am expected to make my life choices
Always keeping in mind that
Marriage is the most important
Now marriage can be a source of
Joy and love and mutual support
But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage
And we don't teach boys the same?
We raise girls to each other as competitors
Not for jobs or for accomplishments
Which I think can be a good thing
But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings
In the way that boys are
Feminist: the person who believes in the social
Political, and economic equality of the sexes"

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Showing the beauty in imperfections

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An anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. Started in 1985 and still happening today.

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Using the sexuality of the female body to draw in the audience, and to hopefully have them think into why it originally drew them in. Minter wants to expose Minter wants people to think about what history has done to the female body.

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Mixes the grit with the gorgeous.

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She's been called one of the most influential teenagers in America. Her video history project, "Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows," went viral with nearly 2 million views. She recently co-directed a video series called "#BLACKGIRLMAGIC" for Teen Vogue. And she's done it all before even graduating from high school.

But at 17 years old, Amandla Stenberg says she used to have trouble seeing herself as a legitimate activist. After all, she hasn't led any revolutions, organized marches or participated in a resistance. "I've tweeted," she laughs. "And I've left controversial comments on Instagram."

"It's been difficult for me to claim the space of an activist when the most revolutionary thing that I've done is type vigorously on a 6x3 inch touch screen," Amandla says. "It felt really silly to be called brave, at first, when I did most of my activism from the comfort of my bed with some popcorn and some old episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."

What this wise-beyond-her-years teen has come to realize, however, is that she is creating change with one simple act: loving herself. In her powerful SuperSoul Session, Amandla explains why being comfortable in her own skin is the core of her activism.

"When we grow up as black girls, we are told that we should be ashamed of our hair," she says. "We are told that we should be ashamed of our bodies. And we should be ashamed of our voices."

At first, Amandla thought she was immune to these messages because of the way her mother raised her. "Until when I was about 16, I realized I was actually combating a lot of self-hatred," she says. "And what I did in order to deal with that self-hatred is I decided to start writing. And I wrote and I wrote and I journaled and I wrote some more. And in writing, I found my voice. In writing, I found my identity and I found self-love."

Through social media, Amandla has connected with other teenagers who promote self-love. Now, she gives herself permission to celebrate herself. "Just by choosing to love myself, choosing to honor myself and be comfortable in my identity in a society that tells me I shouldn't, I am starting a revolution," she says. "Just by deciding to be comfortable in who I am, I'm doing something revolutionary and I'm doing something political."

Her message, she says, is simple. "If you have experienced oppression, if you have been historically oppressed, then your love for yourself is your revolution. If you have historically been an oppressor, then your love for yourself and everyone else, especially, is a revolution. I don't think that we can go forth and fight anything if we are still fighting within," she says. "And so to me, that's the first step - but imagine all that we can do if we are first just comfortable in our own skin."

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Amandla Stenberg: My Authenticity is My Activism

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She's been called one of the most influential teenagers in America. Her video history project, "Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows," went viral with nearly 2 million views. She recently co-directed a video series called "#BLACKGIRLMAGIC" for Teen Vogue. And she's done it all before even graduating from high school.

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"The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off."

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Gloria Steinem on the Women's Movement: Education, Feminism, Economics (1985)

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Even though the original reason for the pink pussy hats was because Donald Trump said "grab 'em by the pussy", artist like Minter made it possible to wear a pink pussy on my head with pride.

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I think this meant to make one a little uncomfortable. And still being one of Minter's less sexual works. In an interview in 2016 she was asked why she does the type of work she does and she responded with, “I’m not interested in doing anything that tells you what you think”. If you look around the pearls and at the model, she is covered in freckles and sweat beads. By 2003 in advertising, models almost never had freckle visible especially like this. And the lipstick on the teeth, never seen.

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The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago 1974-1979

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The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago 1974-1979

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Chicago, using ceramic to sculpt different and personalized vaginas to each woman, pulls from the power an strength of the female reproductive system. She wanted to show how unique each of these diverse feminist and the legacies they left behind are.

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 S.O.S Starification Object Series, Hannah Wilke 1974 

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 S.O.S Starification Object Series, Hannah Wilke 1974 

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The gum is representing how women are “second class citizens”, how they are treated like trash and it is okay. Calling attention to women’s “replaceable”, “unimportant”, and “useless” place in society, Wilke’s art pushed boundaries similar to Chicago. The gum was also kneaded to depict vulvas. Wilke’s work is very in your face, loud, and strong. She never means for these naked photos of women to be sexually please to her male audience. Wilke focused a lot of the pose’s used in her photography. She used pose’s traditionally used for models in magazines to depict a certain level of class and what was socially respectable for a lady, and then would put naked women with hairy armpits and chewed gum covering their bodies. It was like giving the middle finger to the advertising industries and all of the people in society that buy into what they are selling.

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This obviously caused a lot of controversy. By doing such a shocking work, Chicago made herself known and got the public ready for her work to come. Minter’s work with pubic hair and vaginas would not have been possible without Chicago starting to crack that glass ceiling for her.

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Woman and Child on a Balcony, Berthe Morisot 1872

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Woman and Child on a Balcony, Berthe Morisot 1872

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She defied social norms and worked alongside of Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Even though she was working next to these unique that changed how people today paint she had a lot to overcome before getting to just the subject and technique of the art. Morisot’s art had to be much more modest and her area for inspiration was much smaller than the men. Morisot as a woman herself did not get to walk around Paris by herself, she painted what she knew. Morisat paved the way for so many women artist. Without her it is hard to say where we would be as a society and if we would even be in the fourth feminist wave by now.

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Abstract Thoughts, Georgia O'Keeffe 1987

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Abstract Thoughts, Georgia O'Keeffe 1987

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O'Keeffe also focused on the female body, in particular the reproductive system. She used colors that flowed together in a very abstract way. It could be interpreted that this represented the flow of life. She is respecting where life starts and how beautiful it is.