#PERSONALISPOLITICAL: NASTY WOMEN |
DECEMBER 2016
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ART WORKS | Black & White Projects | San Francisco
"What Nasty Women Wear" was a show curated by Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen at Black & White Projects located in San Francisco, CA. MacFadyen asked Wyman to submit visual works inspired by Drumpf's quote from the Presidential Debate in October 2016.
Inspired by their recent #PersonalISPolitical project, Wyman put a call out to their "Nasty Women Identified Friends" and asked them to send a full body photo of what they are wearing, an issue they are passionate about, and a link to more information online. Instead of drawing portraits of faces, Wyman decided to draw only the clothing of their "Nasty Women" friends. They then colored the photos in their signature pop-art style. The resulting image asks the viewer to look more closely at the clothes and imagine their bodies in another's clothes. Below, you can find each portrait, their full response, and the links they shared to more information. The #PersonalIsPolitical bears witness to personally political truths in the hopes make significant and long-lasting cultural shifts towards compassion, equity, and understanding. |
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CINDY
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1. Big money in politics. We are already facing an enormous wealth gap in America, and this will prevent most people from ever getting a fair shot to succeed. http://www.economist.com/node/7059155 and http://mayday.us
2. Racial injustice, mass incarceration of black and brown brothers and sisters, and resegregation: establishing a permanent underclass affects everyone. Also doesn't allow for fair opportunities to rise above. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/michelle-alexander-a-system-of-racial-and-social-control/ and HTTPS://www.spicenter.org 3. Protecting the most vulnerable against unimaginable cruelty, as I believe that turning a blind eye to conscious animal suffering translates to more pain and violence in the world. http://www.naiaonline.org/articles/article/what-is-animal-welfare-and-why-is-it-important#sthash.2sC5nqhL.dpbs and www.mercyforanimals.com 4. Women's reproductive rights. Because duh. Www.plannedparenthood.com |
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CONSUELO
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Native Americans are preserved like peaches in jar as if we are extinct, not real, or curious oddities…as if we aren’t real people, with real lives, real language, real families and real struggles. We are collected, catalogued, segregated, governed as wards of the state and determined (in)valid through a series of federally and socially sanctioned genocidal practices. I am Yaqui and I am alive. We are Native and we have something to say to you…
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/01/27/ugly-precursor-auschwitz-hitler-said-have-been-inspired-us-indian-reservation-system |
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CRISTINE
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The issues I am most effected by are related to rape culture. Violence against women, sexual assault, sexual abuse, etc.
One of my earliest memories is of my first step-dad making me tongue kiss him when I was 2 years old. My third step-dad used to try to look up my night shirt when I was 12, and said all kinds of inappropriate things to me through my teens. I had an uncle who would take my cousin and me out on his boat and make us skinny dip with him when I was 10-12. I was a confidant for this cousin when he also showed her porn, molested her, and continually groomed her into a really twisted relationship until she left home. I have been date-raped more than once. These are merely my formative experiences, the moments that helped define me and shape my personality; there are countless other forgettable (suppressable) episodes of being grabbed, intimidated, crossed boundaries, etc. All of this has built up a certain ambient level of defensiveness as my autopilot. When confronted with experiences that ring that bell, I feel rage. I want to gouge out eyeballs, stab throats, slice off balls, bash heads, MURDER. I feel most empowered and strong when I wear "tough" clothes. I'm protected from the elements and the male gaze. Often, I'll flash a bit of cleavage to feel sexier, but it's more of an "I fucking dare you" than an attempt at making myself sexually approachable. I'm at my best when my ensemble says "don't fuck with me" but my clothes also communicate that I'm down-to-earth, practical, prepared for spontaneous work/play. I can pick up and go adventuring, I can handle challenges, I respect my body, I don't invite drama in my life. I meet the right people when I dress this way versus when I'm advertising sexualized femininity. http://www.mncasa.org https://www.rainn.org/national-resources-sexual-assault-survivors-and-their-loved-ones |
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DIANNE
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I feel pretty passionate about doing my best to empower others through teaching. I always envisioned myself taking a more traditional career path in terms of teaching, but for the most part that isn't what has happened thus far, which has given me an opportunity to work with diverse populations. I've literally have worked with people ages 2-92 teaching art classes to toddlers to creative writing and meditation classes to homeless and marginalized adults and seniors to media literacy and production courses to youth through working for San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and various nonprofits. No matter what population I'm working with, my proudest, most humbling moments as a teacher and human being are when I witness someone gain pride or internal strength through learning a new skill and being able to apply it.
https://diannebrennan.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/my-summer-vacation-at-camp-reel-stories/ |
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MIDORI
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Full, fair, and shame free access to reproductive choices and healthcare - with sound scientific and medical basis.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org |
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LAURA
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Schools for children, not for profit! Keep corporate interests from destroying our education system. Charter schools suck resources away from public schools and often do not meet state standards for education. Corporate ownership means that the bottom line is most important and invites ideological bias and motives that have everything to do with politics and nothing to do with education. Vouchers would put our most needy students at an even greater disadvantage. Keep corporations out of education! Save our schools!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dale-hansen/privatization-of-public-e_b_10319426.html |
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PATT
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Because if I was in prison, I would want books! And it's a way to make things a little better for some of the most marginalized people amongst us.
https://readbetweenthebars.com/ |
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PUI LING
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I've been thinking and there are so many issues I care about.
On my mind right now: the loss of place and culture--poverty and displacement--and either being pushed out of your home, or being forgotten in place while everyone else with options, access, and money, leaves. I've been thinking about how the poor and working class whites of the Rust Belt and the poor and working class Latinxs and Asians and blacks of San Francisco know a profound sense of loss, and that in that devastation there is a chance for unity, solidarity, and power. But I don't have something to link to ... waah, sorry, Jason! How about this link--to Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising against the ruling class where Irish indentured servants and African slaves united across race. And sort of where the notion of race as a unifying factor over economic class is made concrete int he American imagination of itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon's_Rebellion |
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KADET
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In a word: Safety. Safety for marginalized groups, food and water safety, safety nets for victims of war, the right to protest safely…the list goes on. I’m grateful for the private and social spaces in the queer community that offer me the ability to safely surrender and fully express myself, fostering deep empowerment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-mclaren/this-is-not-about-the-safety-of-women-and-girls_b_9757188.html http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/08/we-need-safe-spaces/ http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/308/food-safety/political-influence# https://www.rescue.org/article/aleppo-aid-syrias-most-war-torn-city |
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ANDREA
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The is a picture of me when I was 9. I am wearing my favorite cowgirl boots, I spent months begging my mom for. When she bought them for me I wore them with everything. The outfit was clearly my choice. To me, fashion has always been very personal. I always look forward to dressing because it means I can speak to the world about my inner world without having to say a word. I think I've been this way since I was very young. The politics of fashion has a history probably as long as fashion existed. All political movements can be marked by the fashion of its time. For children, I think, unconsciously, fashion represents an innate yearning for freedom, to make choices for themselves, and overall body autonomy - something the adult world ignores about children. In their own way, children use the clothes on their bodies to say "this is me, I am mine," and what is more political than that?
Here is [a link though] I couldn't find one that spoke to exactly what I was saying: https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/when-the-rules-must-be-broken-how-policy-interrupts-trans-radical-self-love/ It's about body autonomy and the choice to dress your body as you please. |
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KATE
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For the last year I've had the opportunity to work with young folks in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky. In November, our community voted overwhelmingly in support of Donald Trump-- a harsh reality that many of our youth a grappling with. As a result, our national media has been scrambling to classify or understand folks from this region. Much of the media that's been produced by well-intentioned liberal outlets has condemned our community as impoverished, economically, spiritually and intellectually. Moving forward, I hope for new pathways for rural and urban youth to come together to imagine a future beyond what has been prescribed for them by their parents, their communities and their nation.
https://alternateroots.org/it-is-still-a-good-morning/ |