The International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.), a non-partisan social change museum, examines the sometimes combustible combination of religion and politics this month in its global online exhibition Women, Power and Politics at www.imow.org. The exhibition uses multimedia stories to shed light on the complex intersections between religion and politics and the ways religion or spirituality help and hinder women’s political participation
The exhibition will reveal women’s thoughts on this powerful topic using art, photography, video, essays, political cartoons and more. I.M.O.W.’s online community, spanning 200 countries, weighs in with Rania Matar’s photos capturing women’s relationship with religion in the aftermath of war in Lebanon. Serbia’s Women in Black proclaim that they are neither whores nor saints in protesting their Orthodox Church’s order to cover up. The community-submissions are part of I.M.O.W.’s initiative to increase user-submitted creative work to its exhibition.
July’s featured podcast addresses faith and feminism, including one of feminism’s most hotly debated topics: the veil. Listeners can hear Hadil El-Khouly, a young Egyptian women’s rights activist, give her perspectives on how a women’s faith influences her politics.
Women, Power and Politics connects visitors to stories of remarkable women claiming and exercising their power to transform the world and invites users to submit their own work. The exhibition features content from more than 50 countries and currently highlights more than 80 stories that cross international borders and engage a global audience. I.M.O.W. invites people of all cultures and political affiliations to submit their own stories and art and join the conversation in its online community. Launched on March 8, the cutting-edge multimedia exhibition runs until December 31 in four languages — Arabic, English, French and Spanish at http://www.imow.org/.
Source: International Museum of Women