Pas mon genre!
We are overwhelmed by stereotyped, binary and normative images.
We answered to a poster competition revolving around gender representation and held by étapes magazine. We are questioning the stock images the participants were required to use and the references featured by the magazine itself.
We answered to a poster competition revolving around gender representation and held by étapes magazine. We are questioning the stock images the participants were required to use and the references featured by the magazine itself.
The competition was a collaboration between Adobe stock images and the magazine étapes. The participants had to use pictures from the stock images, themselves extremly stereotyped and binary. We could also use a selection of fonts given by Adobe, and referenced by Étapes as being from the “masters of typography”: only white male from the modernist tradition of typography.
We strongly question the goal of this competition and its purpose when no context to such images is given and these type of references are used.
To explore our relationship to genders and their representations, we decided to put together a list of references. Artists, writers, philosophers, journalists, cis/trans womxn and men, and non binaries, question and bring forward our understanding of gender roles, sexualities, intersectionality between sexism, homophobia and racism; and their institutionnalisation.
We strongly question the goal of this competition and its purpose when no context to such images is given and these type of references are used.
To explore our relationship to genders and their representations, we decided to put together a list of references. Artists, writers, philosophers, journalists, cis/trans womxn and men, and non binaries, question and bring forward our understanding of gender roles, sexualities, intersectionality between sexism, homophobia and racism; and their institutionnalisation.
We are offering a fictive exhibition, in a fictive museum called MuRE (Museum of Reflections towards Equality). The programme would be part of a 3 days panel discussion with references such as :
- King Kong Theory, a book by Virginie Despentes
- Ouvrir la voix (Speak up), a documentary by Amandine Gay
- Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, a book by Bell Hooks
- Ouvrir la voix (Speak up), a documentary by Amandine Gay
- Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, a book by Bell Hooks
- Femme in Public, a book and atelier by Alok Vaid-Menon
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and a selection of podcasts that are leading intersectionnal feminist voices in France.
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