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The Medusa Project is an initiative to reclaim Medusa - the mythical Greek woman whose gaze could turn anyone to stone - as a symbol of female empowerment.
The Medusa Project is an initiative to reclaim Medusa - the mythical Greek woman whose gaze could turn anyone to stone - as a symbol of female empowerment.
The Medusa Project is an initiative to reclaim Medusa - the mythical Greek woman whose gaze could turn anyone to stone - as a symbol of female empowerment.
The Medusa Project has three goals:
The Medusa Project has three goals:
The Medusa Project has three goals:
To reclaim Medusa as a symbol of female empowerment
To reclaim Medusa as a symbol of female empowerment
To stop the appropriation of the Medusa image to suppress female advancement
To stop the appropriation of the Medusa image to suppress female advancement
To inspire Gen Z to empower a new generation of female leaders
To inspire Gen Z to empower a new generation of female leaders
The Medusa Project was founded in 2021 by Devin McDonald, then a 17-year-old student in the Classical Honors Program at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Devin is now a Classics and pre-law major at the University of Chicago and is spending her junior year at the University of Cambridge. She launched The Medusa Project after observing that Medusa is frequently interpreted through an inaccurate, male-centered framework and that Medusa imagery is often deployed to undermine women in positions of power, including Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Angela Merkel, Martha Stewart, and Oprah Winfrey.
The Medusa Project was founded in 2021 by Devin McDonald, a Classical Honors Program student at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, after seeing the Medusa image used regularly to demonize, discredit, and devalue powerful women. Hilary Clinton, Condoleeza Rice, Angela Merkel, Martha Stewart, and Oprah Winfrey are just a few among those targeted. For example, during the 2016 presidential campaign, a shocking illustration of Donald Trump as Perseus holding the severed head of Hillary Clinton as Medusa turned up on everything from tee shirts to coffee mugs.
Help us reclaim Medusa as a symbol of female empowerment. Join our social media movement:
Help us reclaim Medusa as a symbol of female empowerment. Join our social media movement:
Here are some ways you can help:
Here are some ways you can help:
Here are some ways you can help:
Listed below are a selection of resources relevant to The Medusa Project that you may wish to explore.
Listed below are a selection of resources relevant to The Medusa Project that you may wish to explore.
Listed below are a selection of resources relevant to The Medusa Project that you may wish to explore.
