Description provided by the artist: .Alice is a 23-year-old young performer from Manchester, UK. The researcher met her at a poetry slam event at 3MT on Oldham Street. She stepped confidently on the stage and asked the public: 'Do you think we have equality? I tell you: we're not even close!'. Her poetry challenges society's ideals of beauty and she thinks people are scared of what's different and feel uncomfortable when others stray away from the 'norm'. She encourages young black women to embrace the desire of being different from what the patriarchal society expects them to be.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
Filmmaker Lisa Fingleton talks in this YouTube video to Mamela Nyamza and Mojisola Adebayo, the co-creators of 'I Stand Corrected' about scenes from their performance at Ovalhouse Theatre in London in 2012. The performance itself is a critical engagement with the South African rape cricis.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/