http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/open-call-for-black-woman-photography-anthology Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/open-call-for-black-woman-photography-anthology/comment-page-1#comment-2209 Denise Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:12:09 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2006/02/20/open-call-for-black-woman-photography-anthology/#comment-2209 I too echo the sentiments of A.J. Dade. It is quite disturbing to see in the arts age preferences. Art is timeless and ageless, hence there should not be any type of age discrimination... especially amongst women of color in the arts. We all have many gifts and talents that we can share and learn from one another. We need to move away from this and beyond. I too echo the sentiments of A.J. Dade. It is quite disturbing to see in the arts age preferences. Art is timeless and ageless, hence there should not be any type of age discrimination… especially amongst women of color in the arts. We all have many gifts and talents that we can share and learn from one another. We need to move away from this and beyond.

]]> http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/open-call-for-black-woman-photography-anthology/comment-page-1#comment-2208 A.J. Dade Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:51:50 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2006/02/20/open-call-for-black-woman-photography-anthology/#comment-2208 I was delighted to come across this website and contest and found it very disturbing to see here the stipulation for woman born "1965 an beyond." Once again there is a prefernce for the young and it is particularly distubing to see this in the arena of Black artists long held outside for all the obvious reasons of color and or gender biases, now we have within our own camps, age delliniations of preferences for youth. I am excluded and others who I would refer to enter submissions for your anthology take this as not only a personal insult but objecively speaking, a very sad comment on the same exclusions we have seen in our communitites and the world of art in general, right here in Black organizations that also run bias in this instance and kind of age preference. We need to not go to "1965 and beyond," we need to get beyond this kind of age discriminiation, it should nt be a criteria here or elsewhere. I was delighted to come across this website and contest and found it very disturbing to see here the stipulation for woman born “1965 an beyond.” Once again there is a prefernce for the young and it is particularly distubing to see this in the arena of Black artists long held outside for all the obvious reasons of color and or gender biases, now we have within our own camps, age delliniations of preferences for youth. I am excluded and others who I would refer to enter submissions for your anthology take this as not only a personal insult but objecively speaking, a very sad comment on the same exclusions we have seen in our communitites and the world of art in general, right here in Black organizations that also run bias in this instance and kind of age preference. We need to not go to “1965 and beyond,” we need to get beyond this kind of age discriminiation, it should nt be a criteria here or elsewhere.

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