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A Mobilization for Women’s Rights

and the Planet in New York City

SEPTEMBER 21st, 2024 | 10am at Madison Square Park

An inspiring art activation during Climate Week featuring

Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR DAY OF ART & ACTION IN NYC

On Saturday, September 21st, 2024 at Madison Square Park in New York City, we unveiled Tiffany Shlain’s sculpture Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, which was previously featured on the National Mall in DC. This unveiling was part of A Mobilization for Women's Rights and the Planet  featuring a powerful program with speakers from the gender equality and climate justice movements, along with select cast members from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, SUFFS; a walk for women's rights and the planet to kick off Climate Week, a special art tour of Shlain's solo exhibition at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in Chelsea and more. Our amazing partners included Women Connect4Good, Project Dandelion, ERA Coalition, NOW, Vital Voices, and more. Some highlights below.​

Watch our new seven minute film which explores the creative process and the ideas behind the sculpture and moveable monument, Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring. It also served as an invitation to mobilize for women's rights and the planet on Sept 21st in NYC, and is a call to action to vote on November 5th, 2024.

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Photo credit: Daphne Youree

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This all builds off of the powerful convening of 50 feminist organizations in Washington DC last fall when Dendrofemonology, a Feminist History Tree Ring was installed on the National Mall. Women who participated with the event included Dolores Huerta, Padma Lakshmi, founder of the #MeToo Movement Tarana Burke, highest elected trans official Senator Sarah McBride, and the original Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter and VP Harris who is also featured on the Feminist History Tree Ring monument. 

DENDROFEMONOLOGY: A FEMINIST HISTORY TREE RING

Reclaimed Deodar Cedar Wood Sculpture 
65" x 64" x 3" E.V.4 2AP 

Large-Scale Framed Photograph

Edition of 4 2 AP Edition 2 will be auctioned off for Artist for Harris Campaign launches Oct 1 

text burned onto the wood with pyrography.

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  • 50,000 BCE: Goddesses are worshiped. 

  • 10,000-3000: BCE Women are healers, shamans, and warriors. A number of societies acknowledge multiple genders.

  • 3100 BCE: Literacy develops, and seeds of patriarchy spread.

  • 2400 BCE: Mesopotamian law declares: “If a woman speaks to a man out of turn, her teeth will be smashed in by a burnt brick.” 

  • 200 BCE: Goddess worship is forbidden in Judaism, and later, in Islam and Christianity.

  • 690:  Wu Zetian becomes the first—and only—female ruler of China.  

  • 1100: Matrilineal and matriarchal Hopi tribe establishes the community of Oraibi in present-day Arizona.

  • 1450 to 1918: 50,000 women tortured and executed as witches across Europe and America.

  • 1576-1610: Queen Amina rules over Zazzau (present-day Nigeria).

  • 1690s: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz becomes the first published feminist in the Americas.

  • 1776-1860s: Abortion up to four months of pregnancy is legal in the United States.

  • 1880s: Inspired by indigenous and abolitionist leaders and British suffragists, first-wave feminism gains momentum in the United States.

  • 1920: 19th Amendment grants US women the right to vote, although most women of color are disenfranchised until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

  • 1920: The Soviet Union legalizes abortion.

  • 1960: FDA approves birth control pill in the United States

  • 1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) becomes the first woman to be elected to lead a democratic country.

  • 1962: Dolores Huerta co-founds US National Farm Workers' Association.

  • 1960s: Second-wave feminism begins with leaders including Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Flo Kennedy, and Shirley Chisholm.

  • 1963: First woman in space Valentina Tereshkova flies a solo mission and orbits Earth 48 times.

  • 1972: Title IX prohibits gender-based discrimination in US federally-funded educational programs and activities.

  • 1972: The US Senate approves addition of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. (The states have not yet ratified it.)

  • 1973: Roe vs. Wade legalizes abortion in all US states and territories.

  • 1974-1980: The Combahee River Women’s Collective calls out the interconnectedness of sexism, racism, and homophobia, and demands change in mainstream feminism and civil rights movement.

  • 1975: Icelandic Women’s Strike held to protest inequality in the workplace and the home. 90% of women participate, and 15 years later Iceland elects a woman president.

  • 1989: Kimberlé Crenshaw defines the concept of intersectionality and ushers in third-wave feminism.

  • 1993: Women allowed to wear pants on the floor of the US Senate.

  • 2006: Tarana Burke begins #MeToo movement.

  • 2016: Hillary Rodham Clinton receives the majority of votes in the US presidential election.

  • 2017: An estimated 5 million people attend Women’s Marches globally. #MeToo goes viral.

  • 2017: Oregon becomes first state to include non-binary gender category on IDs.

  • 2020-2022: US elects first female Vice President Kamala Harris and first trans State Senator, Sarah McBride; Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes first Black woman confirmed to Supreme Court.

  • 2022: 

    • Roe v. Wade is overturned, eviscerating federal protection of reproductive rights in the U.S.

    • Globally, 65 countries have legalized abortions, four in the last year.

    • Globally, 86 women have been elected president or prime minister to date

  • Today:​

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
TIFFANY SHLAIN

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Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is an artist, activist, founder of the Webby Awards, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and national bestselling author of 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Sundance Film Festival, the de Young Fine Art Museum and embassies worldwide. She is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York. Shlain has two fall 2024 exhibitions: a solo exhibition of YOU ARE HERE at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York and an exhibition with artist Ken Goldberg, Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology for the Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time art initiative Art & Science Collide at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles that opens Oct 17, 2024.  Information on the art, upcoming exhibitions, films, and the newsletter to stay posted, go to tiffanyshlain.com.

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