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Irene Peslikis is often remembered simply as the subject of Alice Neel's portrait 'Marxist Girl', but as Chris Hayes writes she was also an inspiring artist and activist who played a pivotal role in feminist organising in New York.
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/behind-alice-neel-s-marxist-girl
VersoBehind Alice Neel’s Marxist GirlDetail from Alice Neel, 'Marxist Girl', 1972. In February 1969, a group of feminist activists stormed a New York state legislative meeting, where 14 men and a woman, a nun, appeared as experts on a legislative committee concerning abortion. These politicians and experts, a flyer prepared for the protest said, would ‘in