Feminist Intersectionality Past And Present, made available and accessible for all.

Dora (Yuan) Mou

What: Project [She]Rebel?

It has been 46 years since Mary P. Jane’s call for spotlight on complex female agency in history and a re-evaluation of picturing historical women as “eternal victims and passive objects;” However, although Academia’s responses are vehement and supportive, our layperson narrative has not been as eager to incorporate more layers in their already monolithic, male-centered and binary tale.

From flattening Hutchinson’s trial to the marker of religious controversy to dividing Asian women via racial triangulation during the Gilded age to white-washing horizontal discrimination within the Gay Liberation movement, these narratives persuade us to trust echo-chambered prose that nooses our attention and attitude towards specific subjects, thus robbing us of our sovereignty to think.

Project [She] Rebel, then, is my initiative to publicize the omitted narratives of women and other marginalized groups throughout American history through my feminist-lensed, muti-media works.

The breadth of my voice manifests through poster exhibits, documentaries, sculptures, interpretive & research-based essays, and poetry. And the depth of my research delves into the various “power with,” “under” and “over” across gender, race, sexuality, class and culture, along with the respective responses and actions taken by the surrounding structures.

Why: Project [She] Rebel?

I want to weld my passion for the arts, my curiosity for historical research, my duty for public activism together with the evolving technology. I want to show that technology, when wielded for hope, can diminish the gap between academia and the public, and furthermore inspire grass-root and positive changes that fuels more humane communities.

Only by engaging history from a feminist/queer lens can we gain a more nuanced, and provocative understanding of how inevitably linked events are to each other and furthermore escape from thinking in a structured, hierarchical way. The main takeaway from Project [She] Rebel that the audience gets is: there is never a straight forward answer to why; we always ask more informed questions.