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Modest Fashion an international phenomenon in art and fashion
It is something new and a multi billion-dollar industry: Modest Fashion. You may have never heard of it, you may...
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Thuis, Ontheemd #2
The music theater performance Thuis, Ontheemd # 2 by Rajae El Mouhandiz goes beyond the culture clash and frankly discusses the...
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Music composing, recording, producing, performing
After being the first Moroccan to study at a Dutch conservatory at the age of 16, Rajae El Mouhandiz left...
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Muslim Women: The Wave of the Future
Muslim women are the new cultural global leaders via soft power through fashion, pop-culture and art. by Rajae El Mouhandiz...
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Thuis, Ontheemd #1
In her first solo performance, artistic centipede Rajae El Mouhandiz takes you to special places and moments in her life...
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UN has no data
about value and valuation of female artists. [UN source]
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Muslima Muslim Women’s Art & Voices
A worldwide online exhibition presenting a collection of thoughts and artworks of contemporary Muslim women who show their identity and...
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Diversity in culture: Why and how?
A question that is often asked is: is the representation in/of the Dutch arts/cultural sector sufficiently reflective of today’s society?...
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Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. […] It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I am aware of the fact that in the bigger scheme of things in the art and literary worlds there are still a lot of gaps as far as diversity and representation goes. That is part of my personal inspiration to make art and tell stories and have more representation for women and people of color.
– Yumi Sakugawa [comic artist]
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Hijabi Monologues NL
The Hijabi Monologues Netherlands production in 2012-15 brought together a fantastic mix of women, Muslim and non-Muslim, from all walks...
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‘Meer Marokkanen’ Party & Facebook community
On Saturday May 10th 2014, a party was held in Amsterdam for more Moroccans in our country. The aim was to...
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How art and music create a new hybrid global culture TedX
The “one story” of Muslims and immigrants we hear in the news and politics every day is ignoring the many stories of...
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The Future Feminist point of view has increasingly leaned not towards striving for equal status within a male construct or a male society, but rather to invite a redesign of society based on the principles of a feminine archetype in order to create the hope of a sustainable future for us all.
– The Future Feminists
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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant’s nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.
- Fatema Mernissi
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