Objectify This

We’ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as “an Italian art collective with an agenda,” by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]

Interview with Mujeres Creando, by Katharine Ainger, from the New Internationalist, mixed with some feminist graffiti I found on the marvelous interweb. Overnight, in beautiful handwriting, words appear on the walls of La Paz, the high-altitude capital of Bolivia. They speak truths Bolivian women won’t say out loud. Deconstructing machismo, anti-gay prejudice and neoliberalism, Bolivian [...]

Here’s this: Also, for more recent feminist billboard vandalism stories, check out this or this!

This blog details the continuing saga of the Route 9 Billboard, which currently looks like this:    The acquiescence of the Anheuser-Busch company to the demands of the bandits of the Pioneer Valley – who, in an anonymous statement to a UMass professor, identified themselves as the C.O.B.R.A.  (Cover Over Budweiser’s Ridiculous Ad) Strike Team [...]

So there’s this billboard on Route 9. It used to look like this: The obvious parallels between the shape of the woman’s hips and the beer bottle and the tagline “Expect Everything” unite the woman’s body with the beer, as something to be consumed. The addition of the belt buckle in the shape of the [...]