Lingerie-clad women donning fluffy boas and invading opticians may not be typically characteristic of a public feminist demonstration, but that is exactly what Spanish artist Yolanda Domínguez orchestrated a few months ago in the country’s capital, Madrid. I arranged to meet Domínguez in the quirky Le Coco coffee shop in the heart of the Chueca district, the epicentre of the Madrilenian LGBT movement. The spellbinding atmosphere of excitement that pervades the barrio at night, when the shop lights dim and the neon bar signs flicker to life, is not dispelled by the blistering July sun that beats down on the cobbled streets. Chueca is awash … Continue reading Life Imitates Art: Artfully Encouraging Respect for the Female Body