Margot Herster | Objects

05 Aug Femicide and State-Sanctioned Brutality Against Women Warning: Johnson County, Kansas and the Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Posted at 15:14h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

Reason 1. The Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe. Howe's record of police brutality and femicide cover-ups that defame and frame people for crimes is confirmed by the Washington Post, as well as investigations and reprimands by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Kansas Supreme...

03 May Some history toward a syllabus, Wombs; Femicide Defined

Posted at 17:06h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

"‘Non piangere.’ Don’t cry. Who is talking to whom? It is the stricken author talking to herself, telling herself to be brave." ―Susan Sontag in "A Double Destiny: Artemisia Gentileschi and Anna Banti," London Review of Books, September 2003 [vc_accordion][vc_accordion_tab title='Deon Haywood and Women with A Vision' icon='' icon_color='']"Breast...

29 Sep from Tampa Jail, 2025 (excerpts)

Posted at 00:00h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

She died. September 29, 2025, Falkenburg. Here, Shayanne handed me a folded paper, Lexi left this when they took her out. I didn't make these drawings because I think I'm good at drawing. ...

15 Aug Wombs; Femicide Defined for Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, New Orleans

Posted at 23:42h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

Margot Herster, Wombs; Femicide Defined at Urban Sidewalk Exhibition Space (US|IS), for Prospect New Orleans, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home, New Orleans [pdf-embedder url="https://www.010her0.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Margot-Herster_Wombs-Femicide-Defined_Prospect-New-Orleans_2025-1.pdf" title="Margot Herster, Wombs; Femicide Defined at Urban Sidewalk Exhibition Space (US|IS), for Prospect New Orleans, Prospect.6: The Future...

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01 Jul Letter to the West Point Community, Emailed to West Point Law Faculty, June 2024

Posted at 00:34h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

June 24, 2024 Dear Colleague, Last month, a Special Agent from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency contacted me for an investigation of suitability and fitness of Scott Sullivan...

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08 Mar Disinformation, manufactured shaming and abuse of law enforcement to silence: Westwood, Kansas

Posted at 17:58h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

Margot Herster in Beautiful World(s) at Artspace, Kansas City, MO, Nov. 21 2021 - Mar. 5, 2022. Drawing by Olufela Omokeko. Left: Installation view. Below: Project documents and integrated website. [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='' thickness='10' up='10' down='10'] BUREAU of CHANGE Mail - Revised Public comment for 10_8 City Council...

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01 Mar Closing Bureau of Change’s Academic Apprenticeship Studio in New Orleans, 2018

Posted at 14:58h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

In 2017-2018, while I was preparing Herster v. Lousiana State University Board of Supervisors for appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge to pervasive sexual and gendered violence and academic segregation within higher education, my former husband, LSU Law Professor Scott Sullivan, became...

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18 Nov Wombs Are the World in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans

Posted at 10:01h in Wombs; Femicide Defined

Wombs was conceived as a series of documentary visual arts and music collaborations. The first, Wombs Are the World, was an illuminated storefront window tableau created as a Bureau of Change collaboration featuring Delgado Community college art student Nikomia Henry. Paige Allyn, also a Delgado...

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01 Feb Retweethearts, 2015

Posted at 00:00h in objects

"I spend a lot of time looking at dark images related to social ills, conflict, death, hate and indifference. For this project, I wanted to look at expressions of love and wanting. This archive of interpersonal tweets may not seem related to public affairs, but to me...

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