I am always here and ready for any project that has to do with self-love, but I was especially excited when I found out a well-known Interscope Records photographer, Liz Mouw, was starting up a self-love project of her own! Mouw has launched a new photography project called Trhi.it (pronounced like “try it”) aimed toward unpacking and analyzing what it means, as a female, to … Continue reading Self-Love with LowqualityLiz – Trhi.it
“I, of course, carry my tiny hands everywhere. You never know when a funny picture or opportunity will crop up.” Liz runs a funny instagram account where she takes pictures of her “tiny hands” doing everyday things and writes a funny caption. “I started doing this a few years ago, just dragging my tiny hands to concerts and stuff to make my friends and band … Continue reading Tiny mohfckn Hands.
5k running event put on by “Girls on the Run” motivates young women of all ages to get active. (CJonline.com) Lena Dunham’s Girls finally comes to a close (The New Yorker) A girls comic book we can all get excited it: “Misfit City” (NJ.com) What happened to all the murdered and missing indigenous girls? The ongoing investigation. (TheStar.com) Cheeto in Chief: Donald Trump puts end to … Continue reading LADIEZ IN THE NEWZ 3
Eighth grade Seattle girl starts movement to get free tampons and pads in her middle school bathroom (The Seattle Times) Banned for being black, these teens get banned from their prom for sporting traditionally black hairstyles. (Newsweek) Carrie Underwood has begun funding girls’ sports teams across the country. (Fox News) Coding Club for girls flourishes in Hamilton Elementary School (Journal-News) Young brown girls and their … Continue reading LADIEZ IN THE NEWZ 2
On April 18th, four twenty-somethings from Brooklyn packed into a dented four-door at 6 am, hitting the highway toward Boston. A cinematographer, a musician, an actor, and me. If you put two and two together, you have already arrived at the conclusion we were shooting a music video. The music video was for the artist, Skela, for her unreleased song Hella. Skela herself was directing it, while … Continue reading Skela’s Hella: The Making of the Music Video
“The weirdest thing in my bag?” My favorite photographer and Girls. alum Grace Watts says, repeating my own question back at me. “It is not really that weird, but I have rolls of film in here, just so I am always ready to take a picture.” Continue reading Eight Rolls of Film.
“Photography is what I am passionate about, and I do it because I love it not because anyone is asking me too,” Grace Watts said as she balanced a bubble tea between her legs outside a coffee shop in Brooklyn. “Give me a camera and I will do my own thing 100%, you will not catch me attempting to create some cheesy posed photograph.” Watts … Continue reading Grace Watts: The STEM Major That Knows How to Art
Lena Dunham’s Girls continues to be a hilarious gem (Entertainment Weekly) This new bedtime story book features female activists like Malala Yousafzai and Simone Biles to encourage parents to read their little girls stories of gender-norm defying women. (BBC News) “A Day without women” protest set for March 8th (Fortune) Photographer captures her daughters for new photojournalism book “Strong is the new pretty” to celebrate girls … Continue reading LADIEZ IN THE NEWZ
3/24 – Sunflower Bean (Terminal 5) Want to see a kick-ass bass playing front woman in the flesh? Go see New York native rock band, Sunflower Bean open for Foxygen at Terminal 5! Julia Cumming is lead vocals and bass, and she totally kills it at both. When she is not creating music, Cumming models on the side and also is very politically active. … Continue reading Find Them: Bad-Ass Music Girls Touring New York
