On Episode 5, co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas speak with members of BRUJAS, a New York City-based feminist organization who use skateboarding and community activism to foster radical social change.

Brujas members ARIANNA GIL, ANTONIA PÉREZ, and REBECCA STURCKEN discuss the group’s representation in mainstream media, the labor involved in producing and sustaining their program, and the challenges of using social media to incite political resistance while considering the threat of surveillance. Sharing their influences and aspirations, the Brujas members talk though the possibilities of youth-led activism in the digital age. 

You can find Top Rank online @toprankmagazine. You can learn more about Brujas on their website https://brujas.nyc/ and @BRUJAS 

A special thank you to Red Bull Studios New York, and to each of our wonderfully generous participants. This episode was produced by Sienna Fekete.

Isabel and Marcel welcome input for future content. You can reach us at isabel@toprankmagazine.com and marcel@toprankmagazine.com.

Episode 05: BRUJAS

This   summer,   an   exhibition   opened   at   the   Museum   of   Sex   in   New   York   City   titled  NSFW: Female   Gaze.   Organized   in   collaboration   with   Vice’s   Creators   platform,   and   on   view   through April   2018,   this   show   includes   the   work   of   25   young   and/or   emerging   female   artists.   The   show’s two   part   title   invokes   Laura   Mulvey’s   canonical   1975   feminist   film   theory   about   the   masculine cinematic   perspective,   as   well   as   the   everyday   politics   of   internet   censorship   and   sexual respectability.
However,   this   exhibition’s   title   presents   an   important   and   timely   question:   What   is   the   “female gaze”   and   what   about   it   is   “unsafe”?   A   “female   gaze”—or   any   gaze   for   that   matter—is   cultural and   learned,   not   innate,   not   universal,   but   intensely   subjective   and   situated   by   race,   class,   and history.

On   Episode   10,   co-hosts   Marcel   Rosa-Salas   and   Isabel   Flower   speak   with   the   show’s   curators, Marina   Garcia-Vasquez   (Editor-in-Chief   @   Creators)   and   Lissa   Rivera   (Associate   Curator   @   the Museum   of   Sex),   about   the   complexities   of   imagining   a   universal   female   subject   and   audience, and   the   ways   in   which   notions   of   beauty   can   be   both   limiting   and   perversely   powerful.

A   special   thank   you   to   Red   Bull   Arts   New   York.   This   episode   was   produced   by   Sienna   Fekete.

Episode 10: NSFW: Female Gaze

Top Rank is a process-oriented research platform, founded in 2015, that highlights people whose work is challenging and shaping our perceptions of contemporary culture. 

Co-hosted by Isabel Attyah Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas

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