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Compare that to 90s Babes, a set of NFTs of pretty women holding up Beanie Babies, disposable cameras, and other relics, which “ celebrates our history as agents of change” or to Miss O Cool Girls, which claims to be the first NFT project “ celebrating + supporting girls + what it means to be a female of the future” and comprises pictures of “the realest girls w the realest traits” (cartoon characters with perfectly round heads, a variety of fashion accessories, and skin tones in a confusing range of human shades and hues of purple).
For example, Women and Weapons, an “ NFT Collection of 10,000 diverse, beautiful, and badass women” that promises to donate 5 percent of its profits to the Malala Fund, depicts a set of Sims-esque characters with mixed-and-matched design elements-colorful hair, facial piercings, brass knuckles, cat ears, nunchucks, etc. They are “a bit cookie-cutter,” says Christiane Paul, an adjunct curator of digital art at the Whitney Museum and a media-studies professor at The New School. Given that all of these projects are promoted in the same feeds, and that many draw on similar aesthetics, “clear-eyed” discernment can be a challenge.
“It’s a time in the world where one has to be absolutely clear-eyed about what is a symbolic gesture and what is structural.” At the same time, she said, some of the projects seem to be co-opting feminist politics to make money. NFTs are a way of recording property, so they have potential for economic transformation wealth could be redistributed without the slog of pursuing government intervention. “I think that some of these projects can be really exciting they can come about from solidarity and collaboration,” Amy Whitaker, an assistant professor of visual-arts administration at NYU’s school of education, told me.
But most of them rely on the general idea that buying an illustration of a woman (or girl or lady or babe) will provide you with access to a forward-looking online community. Some women-focused NFT projects give money to nonprofit organizations that benefit women others supplement their NFTs with “utilities” such as educational courses and access to real-world events and still more seem primarily designed to “empower” women by making them as common a sight in the crypto world as hideous monkeys and pixelated little dweebs. Now they can do so with NFTs, or “non-fungible tokens.” Today’s girlboss is discussing cryptocurrency investments in an exclusive Signal group chat, while other “blockchain baddies” congratulate themselves on being so early to investment opportunities that still baffle much of the population. Normalize being a ✨girl in crypto✨ who like’s fashion, getting cute nails, ordering over-the-top cocktails, & is still better than any male in the industry ? - crypto besties March 22, 2022įive years ago, women might have purchased empowerment in the form of a boutique fitness class or admission to a women-only social club. And Fame Lady Squad, which is a collection of illustrated portraits of women, turned out to be orchestrated by men and had to be rebooted under new leadership. Flower Girls, which is a collection of illustrated portraits of women (with flowers growing out of their heads), raises money for children’s charities. Boss Beauties, which is a collection of illustrated portraits of women, was the first NFT set to be displayed at the New York Stock Exchange (whatever that means) and then announced a partnership with Barbie. Women Rise, which is a collection of illustrated portraits of women, expressed in its “roadmap” a commitment to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. World of Women, which is a collection of illustrated portraits of women, was one of the earliest and splashiest-the one with a film and television deal. I couldn’t tell the NFTs of cartoon women apart. Sign up for it here.Ībout six months ago, my Twitter feed started getting confusing. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday.