Editorial: Body & Gender Politics in Visual Culture

Abstract

This year has been a year of change for me, in large part due to my care of family members in dire health predicaments, a move to a new house, my role as professor-in-charge of the art education program at Penn State, and the political activity in the United States in preparation for the presidential election on 4 November 2008. All of these personal events in my life, as are the events in your life, have political significance when understood as conditions of a time and place that are shared with others. I believe that everyone should have quality and timely health care services, housing, education, and most importantly, leadership that enable the well-being of every BODY. When then is the personal political? It is when your subjective experiences are interpreted from the local within worldwide and systemic situational standpoints.