We just want to let Kate Middleton know that she isn’t the only one who has suffered a wind-related wardrobe malfunction. In fact, it’s happened to plenty of other high-profile celebrities, including one other royal. WHAT: The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are partnering for bi-monthly on-line presentations featuring M.A.M.A. – Mothers are Making Art. Paula Abdul had to deal with a windblown skirt, hair in her face, and the paparazzi as she made her way to The X Factor auditions. Pócs, Éva (2018). "Shirts, Cloaks and Nudity: Data on the Symbolic Aspects of Clothing Srajce, ogrinjala in golota: simbolični vidiki oblačil". Studia mythologica Slavica. 21: 57-95. doi: 10.3986/sms.v21i0.7067. More info about DIY 11: 2014. Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists across the UK.

Nicola Canavan's practice is rooted in action based performance and spans live work, documentations of its products & traces and the re presentation of these in other forms. She questions notions of beauty, pain and expectation through a poetry, which transforms brutal acts into tender and generous anecdotes of allegiance. Born in North East England (UK), Nicola Canavan has been performing and showing work nationally and internationally since 2007 within programmes such as Momentum Festival (Brussels), ]performance s p a c e[ (London), Inbetween Time Festival (Bristol), City of Women (Ljubljana) and SPILL National Platform (Ipswitch). She has collaborated with Photographer Predrag Pajdic, Photographer & Film Maker Manuel Vason, artists Kris Canavan (Husband) and Ernst Fischer and has recently been awarded the Artsadmin Bursary and the Artists International Development Fund from Arts Council England and the British Council.Queen Maxima of the Netherlands at the conference “Be Social, Make Profit: Financing the Future of Developing Countries” as a member of the United Nations in the Peace Palace in Hague, the Netherlands on April 20, 2010 2. Katy Perry The vagina is the ultimate symbol of female power. Sexual power, creative power and apotropaic power – the power to prevent harm. For too long, though, the true extent of vaginal power has been ignored, hidden and misrepresented. I collect ‘Raising the Skirt’ stories: stories about women lifting their skirts to reveal their vaginas and making a vast array of extraordinary actions happen: averting evil, protecting families and communities and conferring fertility to the land and people. Tanya Burr at the ‘Iron Man 3’ UK premiere held at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, England on April 18, 2013 16. Myleene Klass

Hairston, Julia L. (Autumn 2000) "Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's Caterina Sforza", Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. 53, No. 3., pp.687–712. Here’s the wind laughing at Tanya Burr’s efforts to keep it together at the ‘Iron Man 3’ UK premiere. I wish I had been told these stories as a girl. Stories fostering a sense of pride and potency in being female. Stories valuing female genitalia, valuing girls and women. I like to imagine a world where every girl and woman knows these stories of how powerful it is to have a vagina. I have collected many ‘raising the skirt’ stories but I know there are more out there – if you have an account of how mighty the vagina is from your culture’s mythology, history or folklore then please share it with me. Since 1997, Lynn has exhibited and performed extensively in the United States, Singapore, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Australia, New Zealand, UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece, Argentina, and Canada. Geraldine Sealey. "Naked Ploy Is Latest Threat in Oil Wars". ABC News. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01 . Retrieved 2019-11-03.Megan Fox at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California on August 9, 2009 7. Paris Hilton Hard lesson learned for Kourtney Kardashian: no more twirling on windy hotel balconies where there are cameras everywhere on the lower floors! A one off artist 'book' from Manuel Vason's DIY The Photo Performer can be viewed in the LADA Study Room. La mar es posa bona si veu el cony d’una dona’, is a Catalan belief in the vagina, translated as ‘the sea calms down if it sees a woman’s cunt’.

constructing a community of courageous and fearless women to join me in the act of ‘Raising the Skirt’ and reclaiming our cunts. As an applicant, you must wish to participate in the creation of a photographic art piece and a performance where we will raise our skirts, proudly presenting ourselves to the world; you will be part of something special – a community, a piece of photographic artwork and a live documented performance. Imagine a world where girls and women are told stories fostering a sense of pride and potency in what it means to have a vagina. Stories valuing female genitalia; stories revealing the vagina to be the ultimate symbol of female power. These stories exist: they are ‘raising the skirt’ stories. Everyone with a vagina should know them.

There is an inherent contradiction between the physical demands Canavan places upon her body and the stillness that is matched by the slow passage of time.