Feminist Spaces Summer 2022

Contributor Biographies Tallulah Costa hails from Roanoke, Virginia and is a Presidential Scholar and undergraduate sophomore at Smith College. She is pursuing a major in Government with a minor in the Study of Women and Gender. Tallulah has recently been selected as a LEAD Scholar who will work with Smith’s Wurtele Center for Leadership. Her interests include constitutional law, the US government, domestic surveillance and security, feminist leadership, the rights of women—and all their intersections. Tallulah is pleased to have joined the National Council of Jewish Women as an intern with their Government Relations & Advocacy department for the summer of 2022.

Amanda Banks is an interdisciplinary artist who has worked on a range of projects with indie co-ops, government agencies, and more. She finds inspiration in the pattern language of life and uses art to question how our patterns can be recontextualized. She eventually escaped the trailer park (with the kids) and now lives and works from her home studio in North Alabama. You can view more of her work at amandarbanks.com.

Cory Wayman is a recent Art History M.A. graduate of the University of Utah and holds bachelor’s degrees in the fields of art history and sociology. His research focuses on the biopolitics of sexuality in art and visual culture and on social histories of art exhibitions, particularly of politically or morally challenging art of the late-20th and 21st centuries.

Wayman’s premiere publication entitled “Flesh & Stone: Archives, Bodies, and ‘Deep Time’ in Ada Pinkston’s LandMarked” is forthcoming (summer 216