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The annual weeklong event in New York City is designed to inspire women to “find their strength.” The folk and blues musician started it in 2010, as a reaction to the midterm elections that year and the impending “war on women.”
The rock icon, best known for her role in the band Sonic Youth, talks about the challenges of being an artist, musician and mother and looks back at her music career in this excerpt from the book of interviews “Mistakes I Made at Work.”
Lady Gaga, and her beyond-categorization persona, can represent a new form of feminism, says J. Jack Halberstam in the book “Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal.” In this excerpt, Halberstam refutes other feminists’ critiques of the pop singer’s impact.