K's Books

College was when I really got into art, especially feminist art, and Judy Chicago's name was usually mentioned. But because she was mentioned as though the reader/listener already knew all about her, and no images or other details were ever included, I figured she must not have been that important! I graduated in '09 and it was really only a decade ago that I got sick of having her name pop up but I still had no idea why, so I picked up a biography about her (which I still own, but it was published in 2007 so I'm quite a ways away from rereading it as part of this project). I had heard about and seen pictures of The Dinner Party, also in isolation as though everyone already knew about it, but at last I learned what it was and why it was!  In one of my art history classes in college, my professor lamented the lack of images of birth in art - the art you see in museums. None of us in the class had realized this gap, and I guess this professor had never heard of The Birth Proj...

I first read this book in 2010 or 2011, I think I've reread it once since then, and I purchased this copy a few years ago. Each time different essays stood out, and I become more aware of how foundational Lorde has become. I'm more grateful for her writing in the early '80s about looking back on the '60s, as a large chunk of my personal library consists of books from the 80's. The more I learn, within and outside of this project, the more baffling I find it that the '60s is discussed as a time of upheaval, but the '80s isn't - they both were! And Lorde also pointed out the need for continued upheaval as the white supremacy of feminist spaces hadn't improved.  This was the first time that I reread it since I first read Mary Daly and, having just reread her as part of this project, that essay really jumped out at me. The first time I read this, I had no idea who that is and the last time, I hadn't put in the effort to read her work yet - I think th...