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- Description provided by the artist: .The chosen object is my US citizen passport. Today, in a period of high economic crisis and after a terrible hurricane has devastated the island, the issue of Puertorican US citizenship and Puerto Rico political status have become a central topic of discussion globally. The fact that I do have US citizen passport, but I do not have the same rights of other US citizens, is an excellent example of how inequality can coexist under regimes based on ideas of democracy and progress.. . .I called my object 'Citizenship Otherwise'. I decided to submit an image of my US citizen passport to reflect on how the same citizenship can mean different things to different people in diverse historical and political contexts. I attempt to narrate a personal story of inequality through an object that I regularly use. This object represent my own experience with colonialism and inequality.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Description provided by artist: .Women were told to use the needle instead of the pen. The needle was conceived as the symbol of women domestication, of immobility, the “female pen.” This instrument was the antithesis of the phallic pen. Even Mary Wollstonecraft was against women use of the needle. In her text The Vindication of the Rights of Women with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) she wrote: “I have already inveighed against the custom of confining girls to their needle, and shutting them out from all political and civil employments”. Like Wollstonecraft, many women attempt to detached themselves from the image of the “proper” lady with no intellectual capacity to use the pen. But women's literary and feminist activism history complicates, even more, the simple binary of “the pen or needle” or the idea of considering needle incongruent with political and civil matters. While some women rejected the needlework as a confining labor, other, specifically women writers showed the similarities between the needlework and writing, a strategy to exemplify how the art of writing could be part of the “female” domain (Hedges, 1991). This allegory between knitting and writing, the metaphor of textual work as textile work, gave them the perfect excuse to write as they knit.. .Nowadays, an interesting example of the use of knitting for feminist purposes is the Pussy Hat Project. The original idea of the project was to make a visual statement of women’s discomfort during the first day after Trump government's inauguration. Today the use of the pussy hat has become global. The internet is full of images of people wearing the hats in protest and marches all over the world. As Joan Scott (1996) states “Feminist agency is paradoxical in its expression.” What can be considered a confining instrument for women, could easily become the symbol of feminist resistance.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Description provided by the artist: .The image depicts the respond of Puerto Rican feminists to the vandalism of a mural painted by the Colectivo Morivivi, a group of young feminist Puerto Rican street artists. The original image was a naked Afro Puerto Rican woman painted by the group in collaboration with Paz Para la Mujer (Peace for Women) a non governmental women’s rights organization. The image presents a woman hiding her eyes behind her arms, with butterflies covering all her body. The idea of the mural was to spread a message to end .violence against women, but someone decided to put some white undergarment to the painting. In a city full of images of women sexually objectified, the depiction of a naked woman raising awareness against violence, was too transgressive for some passers.In an interview to a local newspaper, one of the artist narrated that during the process of painting the mural, one person screamed at them: ““¡Pónganle un brassiere a esa muchacha!”. ('Put a bra to that girl!').. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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