The Woman Project

08/01/2014

Dear All,

For the last five months I have been working on The Woman Project, and outside of one week during finals, I have posted a new representation of a different woman from a different country every week since. While I have met some great people through the process and enjoyed doing the work I am putting the project on an indefinite hiatus. I have many reasons for doing so but the main reason is that the project has not been effective in the way that I had hoped. The images are hardly ever liked and are almost never shared and for this reason the portraits do not extend past a very small social circle, mostly of my friends and family and the few hundred followers on the TWP social media pages. This is not the fault of any of the viewers or fans, this is the fault of the design. I have one more year left in school and with a senior thesis and my final classes starting in a few weeks I have very little free time and while this project is a great use of my days in general, I need to put it on hold so that I can further experiment with different approaches to my feminist or broader political beliefs that might be more impactful. I apologize if I have let any of you down, but I believe that this is the best step I can make at the moment to help further the political and artistic goals I have committed myself to.

Sincerely,

Nick Randhawa

07/26/2014

Dr. Ruchama Marton is TWP's twenty-first hero.

“The goal is to sustain a single, uniform image for all Palestinians—that of the enemy—which helps to preserve the social fiber of the Israeli Zionists as a coherent group [and] is vital to maintain…the repression, arrest and torture of Palestinians.”
- Dr. Ruchama Marton

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07/19/2014

The figure of the unknown Cambodian is TWP's twentieth hero. Her name, her image, her family, her history, all lost through her resistance to the tyranny. This is an attempt to remember her presence.

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07/13/2014

Fatema Mernissi is TWP's nineteenth hero.

“Pessimism is the luxury of the powerful.”
- Fatema Mernissi

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07/05/2014

Harnaam Kaur is TWP's eighteenth hero.

“I’ve learned to love myself for who I am, nothing can shake me now.”
- Harnaam Kaur

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06/28/2014

Eva Cox is TWP's seventeenth hero.

“There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition.”
- Eva Cox

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06/22/2014

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is TWP's sixteenth hero.

“Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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06/15/2014

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman is TWP's fifteenth hero.

“We were against oppression, and then we elevated our struggles to demand our rights. We will go against all the dictators.”
- Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman

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06/09/2014

Senal Sarihan is TWP's fourteenth hero.

“Courage is a way of life… When you look back on your life, you should have changed the world somehow. Of course humans are scared… But you can’t live being scared. You have to overcome.”
- Senal Sarihan

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06/02/2014

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni is TWP's thirteenth hero. Born in 1944, she is a Thai Buddhist Nun from Thailand, “she is the first Thai woman to receive full ordination as a Theravada nun in Dharmaguptaka ordination lineage,” click the link to see her portrait.

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Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

05/27/2014

Simone De Beauvoir is TWP's twelfth hero.

“On ne naît pas femme: on le devient”
- Simone De Beauvoir

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.”
- Simone De Beauvoir

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05/19/2014

Mariama Bâ is TWP's eleventh hero.

“One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth…in order to love without beginning or end.”
- Mariama Bâ

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05/12/2014

Hey Everyone,

I'm sorry to have to do this but I am going to be late on this week's post. Finals have me pinned down and I am going to a mental health conference all day tomorrow, for which I leave in a few hours, and I just can't finish the design. I hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me :)

Cheers,

Nick

05/10/2014

Check out this video I made on sexual violence against women :) Thanks to Jerry Chiang, Hunter Hulett, and Dylan for their help on the opening sequence. You people are life savers. Here is the video, I finished editing it at 4ish in the AM so if this message doesn't make sense please forgive me :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVohU0dNss

05/07/2014

The Woman Project was mentioned in the East Bay Express article by Sarah Burke on a group show I was in :) You can read the succinct article here http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/envisioning-human-rights-the-next-generation/Event?oid=3890113

Includes paintings, photographs, and prints by emerging artist/activists from across the state, addressing critical human rights issues.

05/05/2014

Celia Sánchez is TWP's tenth hero.

“We rebels…get far too much credit for winning the revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots.”
- Celia Sánchez

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04/29/2014

Check out this awesome short documentary on representations of women that I was lucky enough to be interviewed for. It was made by Students of the World. :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnRrqE7YaQI&feature=share

A short documentary on the representation of women in media by UC Berkeley students for Students of the World

04/28/2014

Hurrah!!! I ended up being able to talk to Nawal El Saadawi as a result of making her portrait, and not only was she flattered but she posted it to her page :) Like her page at https://www.facebook.com/nawalalsaadawiofficial

Fan page for Nawal Al Saadawi (1930 - 2021) was an internationally renowned writer and fighter