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STWTS 5 Year Event
November 4th
Electropositive
639 Classon Ave
1-9PM -
Brooklyn, NY 2017
Do the work to unlearn your sexism. Choose to see women as subjects, not as objects. Recognize your sexism, then work everyday to undo it. What that actually looks like can be several things. The language you use to talk about women, the jokes you tell, the way you address women, the weight you give to a man’s opinion vs a woman’s, the expectations you place on women, your entitlement to a woman’s body. I speak to men all the time who do not recognize their position in this sexist society. You do have a position. -
#PSA 🗣 #streetartnyc #stoptellingwomentosmile (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn)
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Chyna, a teenage girl I met last year in a group discussion with black and brown girls from Brooklyn and Harlem. Already, for years, they’d experienced harassment and sexualization. The sentiment of feeling unsafe came up quickly.
Brooklyn, NY, 2017.
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Stop Telling Women to Smile with Art in Ad Places.
New York, NY, 2017
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I take this parenting thing very seriously. And teaching my daughter the difference between right and wrong can be blurred at times. I can say for certain I am a proud fathrrc at hung her contribute to this amazing global project. #stoptellingwomentosmile #stwts #internationalwheatpastingnight #activism #bethechange @stoptellingwomentosmile 📸: @tahneepantig
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#TiarahPoyau was shot and killed by a black man after rejecting him dancing on her.
I particularly added the adjective “black” in front of “man” because I’m tired of shying away from pointing out the violence perpetrated by black men onto black women.
I’m also tired of providing a disclaimer before speaking about this stuff with “Not all black men…” or “I love black men, but…”
So I’m not going to do it.Tiarah was at an event meant for celebration and love and fun. Around black folk.
And died because of a man’s entitlement. This is what sexual violence looks like. What street harassment looks like. What #misogynoir looks like. What being a black woman moving through the world looks like.It’s sad and disgusting and I’m tired of it.
Stop mistreating us. Stop abusing us. Stop killing us.Black men: you are complicit. Check your homies who you know are problematic. Stop making sexist jokes thinking that it’s funny. Stop thinking that feminism is just for white folks.
If you’ve been taught that to be a man means to be aggressive, that to be vulnerable or expressive is to be womanly which is to be weak, dead that. Reject the toxic masculinity and violence that you’ve been taught is real manhood. Try.
Because the black women that love you and support you and are out here - have BEEN out here - fighting and protesting for your very right to breathe air and live freely are dying at YOUR hands.
Do something.
Do something.
Do something.“You Are Harassing The Very Women Who Are Fighting For Your Life”.
Portrait is of Sable, pasted in Brooklyn, NY, from the Stop Telling Women to Smile series. -
Extending love and thoughts to Orlando, the family and friends of the victims in this horrific shooting. It’s terrifying and infuriating that queer folks were killed in a gay club - a place that for a lot of people acts a place of refuge and sanctuary.
It is terrifying that in an environment and moment of love and pride and fun and celebration of who you are and your very existence, that that existence can be taken away seconds later by hate. Homophobia is oppressive to queer people every day and breeds an environment where one thinks twice about simply holding your partner’s hand while walking down the street.
We are here for folks being able to move freely in the world without fear or harm due to any oppression and that includes homophobia AND Islamophobia.
Peace to our queer folks, to our muslim folks, to queer and muslim folks. To our QPOC, to our TPOC. You are loved.Photo: Sarah and Kelly-Eve, a couple in South Africa. Pasted in Brooklyn, NY.
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“Sakia, Sakia, Sakia, Sakia” is a mural I completed earlier this week in Newark, NJ. #SakiaGunn was a teenage girl who was stabbed by a man after her and her friends refused him on the street. She was 15, black, a girl, and gay. This month marks the dates of her death (May 11) and birth (May 26). It felt really appropriate and important to paint her portrait. However, I was nervous because I had trouble getting in touch with her family to get permission before starting the mural. But a few days into it, through social media, we found each other and there was nothing but love.
This mural is a part of a mural of project called #GatewaystoNewark to spans over a mile on McCarter Hwy and features dozens of amazing artists. Because the murals are off of a highway, we had to work over night for only a week. 9PM - 4AM everyday.
I’m not from Newark. I didn’t know Sakia personally. But she was a young black queer girl and deserves to be seen and her story heard. While painting, many people drove by a yelled out her name. A few people got out of there cars to tell me they knew her.
This is the stuff that public art is good for.
#sayhername
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