The Invisible Women Project – Info and Tour Dates

The Invisible Women Project – Info and Tour Dates

The Invisible Women Project aims to collect and document the experiences of female sneaker aficionados across America. Sneaker culture it typically regarded as a hyper-masculine subculture although women are sneaker aficionados too, their participation is rarely acknowledged. Their participation is often marginalized or objectified. They battle to gain ‘aficionado’ status and recognition because of their gender. Yet, they too obsess, buy and collect sneakers with the same passion for the culture and consumerism as other male sneaker aficionado’s. Female sneaker aficionados don’t wear kicks because of their fitness capabilities and the claim that they can tone and shape a woman’s body. They wear them because they want to stand out, to turn heads and have someone recognize the absolute fire on your feet and ask the proverbial question “YO! Where’d you get those!”

Full article: http://sneakherbox.com/2012/02/the-invisible-women-projec...