The Woman Project

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

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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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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Fatema Mernissi is TWP's nineteenth hero.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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