Good idea Sarah. Prove everyone in the world we don't even have enough woman in the 9% of editors who can take a picture of some "trivial" thing. Prove the world the only way to have picture of girls in commons is hiring models and photographers to take them.
I have NO idea why no one thought of this before! _____ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* On 6 May 2012 14:13, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/6/12 1:07 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote: > > On 5/2/2012 9:39 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > > Don't miss http://thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad > > > Where are women laughing as they chop up bloody sausage... > > To me I guess I see hostility and dominance in the kind of shots people > have been complaining about. I don't think women should respond en masse > with the same, but if no one responds at all, I feel it is my duty to > mention bloody sausages. > > Of course, women have responded here, but I guess not enough of a ping in > the fabric of world wide male dominance for me to keep my bloody sausages > to my self... > > Hmmm... maybe I should write some of my favorite artists with > suggestions.... > > Or get rich and commission a bunch of stuff I like... whatever the them... > > (Handsome male dogs of various breeds on their backs smiling and saying > "Scratch my belly mommy.") > > > There was an idea brainstormed a little while back with me and a few other > folks about seeking funding to have a "Wiki Loves Women" photography event > that wanted photographers to take photographs of women - and this wouldn't > be some broad crowdsourced thing like WLM, we would work with > photographers, various "models" etc and make this legit with releases, etc > - doing whatever we needed them to be better represented doing, so to say. > So, wearing certain articles of clothing (i.e. "go go boots"), certain make > up looks or uses, hairstyles, - places that are often poorly represented > regarding "women's stuff" (i.e. men don't get manicures that often, sorry) > even as extreme as sex acts, I also wanted to just have women doing > "things" like mowing the lawn and planting flowers or pan searing salmon or > whatever things need videos to represent them (and no, these women wouldn't > be nude :P). The latter was inspired by Jenny Geigel Mikulay's work at > Alverno College where she had her students (it's a women's college) make > films of things like playing drums, the art museum building kinetic > architecture time-lapsed, etc. All of these videos have been uploaded to > Commons. > > Someday I'll do it =) I can see it being a project that would be a perfect > fit for Kickstarter. > > Sarah > > -- > *Sarah Stierch* > *Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow* > >>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate > >>today<https://donate.wikimedia.org/> > << > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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