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Boxing was really cathartic for me.
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Cathartic
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My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work.
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Display
Life Work Always
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There's a real lack of basic understanding of the female body and the reproductive system.
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Basic Understanding
Reproductive
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I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.
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Gender
Codes
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I'm hoping to raise a little consciousness and shine some light on the idea of responsibility.
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Consciousness
Hoping
Shine
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I don't think that you have to always present as angry, masculine, aggressive to be a feminist.
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Aggressive
Masculine
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I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.
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March
Attended
Professionals
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Tupac was actually pro-choice, which is fantastic. Of course, those moments in rap are few and far between.
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Pro-Choice
Tupac
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As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.
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Coffee
Collectors
Gallery
Tables
Artists
Making
Museum
Walls
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I don't like putting the female form behind glass or on a wall, further objectifying it as much as art does.
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Glass
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I'm a Brit, so I come from a country where in the run-up to a general election, no one talks about abortion.
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Abortion
Election
General Election
Talks
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Caring for someone who is terminally ill is traumatic, but it's a privilege too. It's part of being a woman.
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Caring
Ill
Privilege
Traumatic
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One thing to remember is that human beings connect through vulnerability. That's our core way of connecting.
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Core
Human Beings
One Thing
Remember
Vulnerability
Beings
Connect
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My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one.
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Grief
My Journey
Over It
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Well, I don't like shooting in bathrooms. They're small and cramped and you've got harsh surfaces and it's difficult.
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Harsh
Shooting
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It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine art photographer.
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Photographer
Fine Art
Refer
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Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So in a funny sort of way, vulnerability is attractive.
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Attractive
Consciousness
Vulnerability
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My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers in Hackney.
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Dad
Jew
London
Mum
Two
Me Who Two
Brothers
Dad Me Who
Chose
North
Proudly
Raise
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For me, 'Jewishness' manifests within my humor, slang, cynicism, culinary tastes, and the spirit of generosity ingrained in me.
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Culinary
Generosity
Slang
Ingrained
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I was a big hip hop girl, and still am, I listened to artists like Wu Tang, and K'Naan, but I was a particular fan of Biggie and Tupac.
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Biggie
Hip
Hop
Listened
Tupac
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I want to reduce the stigma of the word 'feminism.' It's not about eliminating and excluding. You can be yourself and still be a feminist.
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Feminism
Stigma
Be Yourself
Excluding
Reduce
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I have this ridiculous idea that art should just be for everyone, and everyone should get to enjoy art and it shouldn't be this exclusive thing.
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Exclusive
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People will email me and text me if they've found an amazing loo. I'm like, 'How was the food?' They'll say, 'Fine, but you have to check out the loo.'
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Food Amazing Me
Check
Text
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I knew I wouldn't be able to afford to rent a studio as well as get a home that I was excited about. So I was like, if I can do both in one, I can just about make it work.
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Rent
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My art should have a lightness and sweetness. Especially since it has heavy and triggering subject matters, I prefer to present it in a way that's palatable and draws people in.
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Draws
Heavy
Lightness
Sweetness
Art People Way
Prefer
Matters
Subject
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I grew up in a feminist household in Hackney, East London, my mum was responsible in many ways for the feminist stain on the socialist party, and my dad had really strong feminist leanings.
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Socialist Party
Stain
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Cutting out images you like from art books and framing them is a great way of getting beautiful works on your wall. You can also frame magazine images or pick up inexpensive art at museum gift shops.
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Cutting
Inexpensive
Shops
Art Great Beautiful
Frame
Great Way
Images
Magazine
Museum
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People abandon you because they can't handle the depth and complexity of your experience, and that is ultimately a gift. It shows you what is important, who is important, and who is really, truly in your corner.
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Abandon
Complexity
Depth
Handle
Corner
Truly
Ultimately
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Becoming a mother really put me in touch with not just my mortality but also my baby's mortality. You spent nine months working on this thing, and it's finally there, and the first thing you think about is, 'I don't want my child to die.'
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Becoming
Months
Nine
Nine Months
Touch
Finally
First Thing
Spent
The First Thing
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When I became older and started to become more in tune with my political leanings, there was a disconnect between the feminist in me and the hip hop side of me, and I don't know if, in some way, those influences are also present in Tupac's work.
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Work Political Me
Disconnect
Hip
Hop
Influences
Tune
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I'm atypical in my personal life, my situation is not that of the average struggling artist, and so I feel like I have to work even harder to prove myself and let the work speak for itself. At the same time, I'm not prepared to hide who I truly am.
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Personal Life
Life Work Time
Hide
Struggling
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The process of learning how to defend my body, how to own my space and take away space from other people, and getting me in touch with my masculine, testosterone-heavy side, from a personal development standpoint, it was really helpful to me - as well as releasing aggression and frustration.
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Frustration
Masculine
Standpoint
Releasing
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I don't think I ever really felt comfortable with photography as my sole medium. But it wasn't really until I became a mother - I really credit that to opening me up artistically, I think because it was such an empowering birth for me - it gave me the confidence to explore different modes of expression.
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Empowering
Opening
Photography
Sole
Modes
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For me, boxing was a way of me exercising my frustration, anger, sense of injustice, but also a way of owning my space and taking up space. Which I think as a woman in the art world is essential for surviving. You have to become comfortable going like, 'OK, I'm going to take this wall, this wall is mine, I'm going to put my work on this wall.'
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Anger
Art World
Frustration
Injustice
Surviving
Exercising
Owning
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