<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks, Beth. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These insights from your research are fascinating. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m looking forward to reading more when the research is published, especially about the use of online platforms to produce a community for discussions that might not translate, especially into western commercial art world where those adjectives are linked to the entire catalogue of orientalist tropes and rationales for military interventions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ll return to the related category of feminist arts practice in week 3, so we can considered the power asymmetries between colonial feminism, corporate feminism, white feminism in contrast with postcolonial feminisms, transnational feminisms, Muslim feminisms, and so forth.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dale</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 7, 2020, at 23:17, Derderian, Elizabeth <<a href="mailto:elizabeth.derderian@yale.edu" class="">elizabeth.derderian@yale.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hello all</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">In response to one of Dale's earlier Qs: the artists I have worked with in the UAE have used the internet to make work about exile/belonging/citizenship (or lack thereof), compulsions across boundaries or taboos (physical, emotional, social, etc), hymen rejuvenation schemes that prey on Khaleeji women, to name a few. I think the first two artists, their work is relatable quite broadly. The third artist, her work was meant to spark a conversation amongst local women, which it did; it speaks to global feminist art practices secondarily. Most artists I worked with felt some kind of obligation to speak to a local community they identified with (whether city, nation, ethnicity, religion or region), but struggled to do so in ways that didn't feel a) trite or b) silo them as a [qualifying adjective]* artist - they reported often trying to speak broadly about the human condition from their particular vantage, and being frustrated as writers in the media defined their contributions as valuable solely because of their positionality. </div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">*ie Arab, female Muslim, Emirati, etc. <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">See also: Olu Oguibe, The Culture Game (2004) </span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; 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