Ways that we women name-call and ridicule each other, ourselves. If we dare to own ourselves or take our own space. Politics, class, race, gender, abilities aside, we need to respect and support each other.
Warren is giving her own commentary on expectations and simultaneous ridicule for women, reclaiming and re-affirming womanhood with these confident, joyous and self-aware figures. An answer to, for example, the degrading art images of women by, for instance, Helmut Newton in the 1970s.
I bought this pack of cards, shown below, in 2012 at Women of the World, the Southbank WOW festival held annually for International Women’s Day. The cards explore many ways we stereotype and undermine women. These are tropes that were in use ten years ago.
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