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"Love Letters That Were Never Sent"
"Some relationships are all thorns and no roses.
This is about those relationships, the relationship of me with the world at large, and the pain that I have experienced just being a woman. There is an intersection of those three elements that I explore in this project.
I have felt a lot of isolation in my life, and I have at times felt extremely depressed and hurt going through traumatic experiences whilst experiencing abuse for speaking up about and sharing what I was going through.
I would be shunned, silenced, gaslit, bullied and cast out.
Men were always protected, I was never believed.
This was horrible for me.
In the larger scheme of things this needs to change. Rape culture needs to end. It can't be right that the people that we trust the most and love the most hurt us, that this is normalised, and that in some cases this ends in murder.
I have read it in the news so many times, and nothing seems to happen or change. The world seems numb to it, or doesn't seem to care. What the fuck?
Men are killing us for being women, and nobody cares?
Sometimes I wish that I could just switch off my gender and walk into the world without feeling worried or unsafe. Be a man for a day. Scratch my balls while I think nobody is watching. Have sex without feeling guilty, shameful or scared. Not have to watch over my shoulder, and feel comfortable walking alone at night. I can't, but I can make art. I can speak up and I can share my voice. I have a voice and it deserves to be heard.
We need change. We deserve change.
Being a woman shouldn't be this hard, and it shouldn't be dangerous."