The wind is a friend of fashion photography editorials, but as the following women know, it can also be a formidable foe. 1. Queen Maxima Paris Hilton looking out over the balcony of her beach house in Malibu, California on August 18, 2007 8. Kourtney Kardashian Raising the Skirt: ‘La mar es posa bona si veu el cony d’una dona’, is a Catalan belief in the vagina, translated as ‘the sea calms down if it sees a woman’s cunt’. (Images by Dawn Felicia Knox) Jennifer Aniston with a windblown skirt situation at the ‘We’re the Millers’ premiere held at the Odeon West End in London, England on August 14, 2013 5. Cameron Diaz

I’m also on a mission to empower girls and women – ensuring we grow up confident and proud of what we have between our legs. I believe a vital first step in achieving this is using positive, respectful language for our genitals, that’s why I am campaigning too add the word verenda to the dictionary as the positive, respectful word for the vagina; it means the parts inspiring awe, respect or reverence. Please do sign and share my petition at www.change.org/SayVerenda and let’s change the world one word at a time.

Megan Fox at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California on August 9, 2009 7. Paris Hilton Hard lesson learned for Kourtney Kardashian: no more twirling on windy hotel balconies where there are cameras everywhere on the lower floors! For this project I am interested in bringing together a group of women who can who can bring strength to the circle to form an Anasyrma Army – those with interesting anecdotes, information and threads. This dialogue and unity will form the foundations of the action, which we will carry out together as a performance to camera and a public action. Demi Lovato‘s performance was so heartfelt, she didn’t feel anything else, including the wind that lifted her skirt. I collect ‘Raising the Skirt’ stories: stories about women lifting their skirts to reveal their vaginas and making a vast array of extraordinary actions happen: averting evil, protecting families and communities and conferring fertility to the land and people.

The vagina is the ultimate symbol of female power. Sexual power, creative power and the power to prevent harm. For too long, though, the true extent of vaginal power has been ignored, hidden and misrepresented. Jennifer Aniston is a seasoned pro: she foresaw what the wind would do before anything damaging to her image could happen.Morris, Ellen F. (2007). "Sacred and Obscene Laughter in 'The Contendings of Horus and Seth', in Egyptian Inversions of Everyday Life, and in the Context of Cultic Competition". In Schneider, Thomas; Szpakowska, Kasia. Egyptian Stories: A British Egyptological Tribute to Alan B. Lloyd on the Occasion of His Retirement. Ugarit-Verlag. ISBN 978-3934628946 La mar es posa bona si veu el cony d’una dona’, is a Catalan belief in the vagina, translated as ‘the sea calms down if it sees a woman’s cunt’. The book that changed my mind… It turns out the female orgasm is the biggest news on the planet,’ Booker-shortlisted author Lucy Ellmann. When fertility goddess Demeter wanders the earth refusing food and drink as she mourns the loss of her daughter Persephone (who is imprisoned in the underworld after being abducted by Hades), the land loses its energy source, crops shrivel and famine ensues. It’s only when older woman Baubo lifts her gown and points out her naked vagina to the goddess that Demeter finally laughs and accepts sustenance and the world becomes fecund once more. Japan tells a remarkably similar myth of how vaginal display restores fertility to the earth after angered sun goddess Amaterasu-o-mi-Kame has withdrawn from the world. Isis-Aphrodite 2nd-1stC BCE

Kourtney Kardashian on the balcony of Eden Roc Hotel in Miami, Florida on October 11, 2012 9. Kelly Brook That says it all really, that the only thing worth writing about the vagina was its diseases,” she says. “You could get all sorts of histories about the phallus, the different festivals, all celebrating male virility. There was this aching gap where there was nothing about the woman, so I pretty much walked into a publishing deal.” There is an inherent contradiction between the physical demands Canavan places upon her body and the stillness that is matched by the slow passage of time. In Gaelic and Greek mythology, groups of women raised their skirts en masse to defeat Irish sun god Cúchulain and Greek hero Bellerophon, respectively. Ancient and modern history relate how women deploy the raising the skirt gesture in protest and as a military tactic. In 551 BCE, collective vulval display changed the outcome of war between the forces of Media and Persia; in nineteenth-century China, rows of older women would stand on the top of the city wall and expose their genitals to frighten off enemies. Many historical references suggest that anasyrma had dramatic or supernatural effect—positive or negative. Pliny the Elder wrote that a menstruating woman who uncovers her body can scare away hailstorms, whirlwinds and lightning. If she strips naked and walks around a field of wheat, caterpillars, worms and beetles fall off the heads. Even when not menstruating, she can lull a storm out at sea by stripping. [4] La Fontaine plateMore info about DIY 11: 2014. Professional development projects BY artists FOR artists across the UK. It's been such a brilliant weekend, allowing me to exercise some thinking that hitherto has been in the isolation of my own studio, bringing it into chats, encounters and discussion has been incredibly useful. A two-day workshop on the art of sharing in collaborative encounters for artists in the North West.

In some nations of Africa, a woman stripping naked and displaying herself is still considered a curse and a means to ward off evil. [8]

7. Paris Hilton

Lynn Lu received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University with a major in Sculpture and a minor in Graphic Design in 1999. In 1998, she studied with Christian Boltanski at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and at the École Marchutz in Aix-en-Provence. She earned her MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002, and completed a PhD program (ABD) at Musashino Art University in Tokyo in 2008, on a full scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2010 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Newcastle in Australia. Dear Duchess Kate, we hope you find solace in our list of celebrities who have also had their dresses and skirts caught in the wind! Raising the skirt: the unsung power of the vagina reveals this revolutionary view of female genitalia and points the way to a new understanding of what it means to be female. An inspiration for millennia, the vagina is actually a muscular marvel of engineering - sensitive and strong, fluid and flexible. Far from being a passive vessel, female genitalia control the most important role of all: the survival of the species. Myleene Klass takes her children to school in London, England on March 26, 2013 17. Victoria Justice There’s a long way to go, she admits. “But I think you have to start somewhere. And women and girls are definitely not made to feel good about having a vagina if we don’t use the right words, if we don’t tell them these stories … It would make such a difference to female psychology if we talked about things differently.”