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Role Play, salah satu karya I Made Toris Mahendra yang dipamerkan dalam pameran tunggal "Hidden Passion".   Oleh Kuss Indarto (Catatan ini termuat dalam katalog pameran tunggal I Made Toris Mahendra, "Hidden Passion". Pameran ini berlangsung selama sebulan mulai tanggal 19 Februari 2012, di Galeri Apik, Jakarta) I Made Toris Mahendra, saya kira, belum atau tidak pernah menabalkan diri sebagai seorang laki-laki (aktivis) feminis atau male feminist . Dia, barangkali, juga tak mengenal, atau bahkan tak tahu, nama-nama besar nan “seram” semacam Mary Woolstonecraft, Betty Friedan, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Young, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies, dan berderet-deret lagi para pemikir feminisme dunia, entah itu feminisme liberal, feminisme radikal, feminisme Marxis-Sosialis, feminisme eksistensialis, feminisme posmodern, ekofeminisme, dan lainnya. Dia, ...

Painting "Hidden Power of Woman", created by I Made Toris Mahendra. By Kuss Indarto I Made Toris Mahendra has—yet—never acclaimed himself as a male feminist. He might not know the big and “scary” names such as Mary Woolstonecraft, Betty Friedan, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Young, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies, and many other names of world’s feminist thinkers, be it liberal, radical, Marxist-Socialist, existentialist, post-modern, or eco-feminism, among many other “genres” in such-ism. He might not notice local activists and feminist thinkers who pass by in mass media such as Ratna Megawangi, Gadis Arivia, Maria Hartiningsih, Maria Pakpahan, Mariana Aminudin, and so forth. He might not know much about the map or connecting dots among theoretic landscape produced by aforementioned feminists and all of their derivatives, how they practice the thoughts in most...