Oakland Museum’s “Hella Feminist” Asks Visitors to Challenge, and Expand, Meaning of Feminism

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Oakland Museum’s new exhibit, Hella Feminist, was scheduled to open two years ago to mark the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. The pandemic pushed the opening into a drastically changed climate for women after the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion. Through the works of contemporary artists responding to our current moment and an examination of historical items from the museum’s archive, the exhibit challenges visitors to interrogate the history and our concepts of feminism. Forum talks with the museum curators about the exhibit and what feminism means in this moment. Guests: Carin Adams, curator of art, OMCA Erendina Delgadillo, consulting curator, Hella Feminist exhibit at OMCA Lisa Silberstein, co-curator, Hella Feminist exhibit at OMCA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.5	The last five years have seen a remarkable set of powerful movements and trying circumstances. Me Too, the incomplete racial reckoning that followed George Floyd and Brianna Taylor's
1:34.1	killings by police, the Trump presidency, and now the comprehensive rejection by the Supreme
1:39.3	Court of the federal right to an abortion in the Dobbs case. Into this mix comes a new exhibit
1:44.1	at the Oakland Museum of California,
1:46.1	Helafeminist, which features the work of contemporary artists responding to these times
1:50.5	and an examination of historical items from the museum's archive.
1:54.6	The exhibit challenges visitors to interrogate the history and conception of feminism.
1:58.5	We'll talk with the curators and you about what feminism is
2:01.5	and needs to be in this moment. That's all coming up next.
2:10.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. The Oakland Museum's new exhibit, Hell of Feminist,
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