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Art and MusicNational Museum of Women in the Arts
Posted October 16, 2023 by FrankieDuck in WomensHistory

In a New York Times article Is a Women’s Museum Still Relevant? written by Mr. Kriston Capps a quote by Susan Fisher Sterling, the Museum's director is included:

People in the art world always think we’re achieving parity faster than we are,” Sterling said. “We’re not even close to there, if 89 percent of acquisitions are men’s work.

The museum was being renovated and will reopen at the end of October Hopefully it will stay open. It's a Woman's museum after all.

The article made me wonder how transgender identifying people are faring in the artworld. Obviously they achieve notoriety more easily than "CIS" artists. While articles in the NYTimes like this about possibly closing the Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts subtley diss women's art, the lack of creativity in the arts in today's world is decried in other articles Why Culture has Come to a Standstill

A recent Canadian Survey of nonbinary and transgender identifying artists shows that many gravitate to the arts. So far the National Museum of Women in the Arts has not displayed works by transgender indentifying men but will that be changing? It seems like the pressure may be on.

*Is a Women’s Museum Still Relevant? *https://archive.ph/0SVLI#selection-345.0-345.35

Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill https://archive.ph/QZTjr#selection-319.0-319.36

First ever census data on transgender and non-binary artists and workers in the arts, culture, and heritage https://statsinsights.hillstrategies.com/p/transgender-nonbinary-artists-cultural-workers

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SassafrassMarch 7, 2025

I haven’t engaged with it because it makes me too angry.. but my work is advertising how we’re meant to be “celebrating ALL women” this women’s day. “All women” including the men who are invading your spaces and bastardising the struggles you face… 😬🥲🙃

KatrinaMarch 7, 2025

We can’t fight every battle - we have to pick them, so we have the energy for what matters the most, or will be mist effective.

BlukBerryMarch 7, 2025

I honestly believe trans nonsense is another concerted effort to push women back into 'our place' à la the extremely sexist ad campaigns after the Second World War.

Every time women gain some ground, some rights, some dignity, there is always something to push us back.

KatrinaMarch 7, 2025

Yep - every time women have gains there are men who find some way to exploit those gains for themselves, in a way which is detrimental to women.

BlukBerryMarch 7, 2025

Absolutely.