WMNS 1103 Chapter Notes - Chapter Additional Readings: Favianna Rodriguez, Audre Lorde, Takers
17 May 2018
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Favianna Rodríguez: ‘Artists are Risk Takers and Truth Speakers’
• Audrey Lorde: “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live
single-issue lives.”
• Who is Favianna Rodriguez?
1. 36 years old, daughter of Peruvian migrants
2. Her work is in response to issues that have affected her- a migrant, a woman,
having an abortion, being a woman of color in the art world
3. “Politics tends to be fragmented…art by nature is intersectional”
4. Not looking to tell the story of one person, but of human beings
5. Themes of migration rights, women’s rights, feminism, sexual rights, LGBT
rights, environmental justice, racial justice, class justice
• Intersections between sexuality and activism
1. “The core of our independence is to have governance over our bodies”
2. Abortion rights being taken away is a threat to overall
3. There’s a belief that women’s bodies can be sold and exploited
4. The core of massive violence against women is always the exploitation of
women’s bodies so it has to be at the forefront of building a better liberated world
5. This is a priority in Latin America but it’s called sexual justice rather than
reproductive rights
• Immigrant Art
1. Growing online movement of immigrants in the US making art
2. Most powerful printmaking tradition comes from Puerto Rico, Mexico and Cuba
3. “Taller de Gráfica Popular” in Mexico: all about creation of the multiple, moving
away from valuing one work of art to thinking that art should be distributed and
shared
4. Internet contributes greatly: powerful tools for creation, open space for sharing
and connecting, and the do it yourself culture
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