A 16" x 22" poster provoking an examination of history and identity through the 19th Amendment.
Currently there is a national rally for greater support for women and to understand that beyond identifying as women, they identify with other diverse racial and cultural identities: to not acknowledge and support all identities would be to mistreat the person as a whole. It’s not about supporting women for being women, but for being the individuals they are.
How can I represent intersectionality to broaden the scope of what rights are fought for and who is perceived as vulnerable through a poster?
The smaller type in purple:
It is time we stop assuming that feminist activity helps all women in some way. The intersection of racism and sexism has contributed to black women having the lowest status in American society: this factors into why 45 years after white women, black women were allowed to vote.
The fight for women’s rights has been a powerful movement that has changed our nation’s legislature. However, it brings to light the social discrimination or disempowerment with the intersections of not just gender and race—there is inequality which does not factor in other intersections.
As a society, we have to broaden our scope of what rights we fight for and who we perceive as vulnerable because different things make different people vulnerable: if you believe in the rights of the people, you must believe in the rights of ALL the people.
As purely a typographic poster made within Illustrator and distorted in Photoshop, each bold word is an identity that is intended to connect with the viewer either personally or socially; through seeing that identity in the context of, and connected to, other identifiers, I hope that the viewer begins to understand how intersectionality plays a huge role in their lives and the lives of others. Intersectionality reveals that there is no such thing as neutrality—by choosing to remain silent and to only support specific marginalized communities, that allows the cycle of discrimination and oppression that has been taught to us to continue.
