Empowering graphic black and white portrait of a young woman smiling. "Sabogal believes that as women, we are everything we need. We are literally places of birth, as womb, and this world could not continue, could not generate, could not go on without us and our bodies. We belong to ourselves. 'Women Are Perfect! (If You Let Them)' marries incompatible images of women as made personal by the artist herself: the birth and growth of her nephew coincides with the internationally- and locally-scaled war on women that denies their perfection and personhood." -- Galería de la Raza website
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Council of Independent Colleges provided funding support for this project.
Notes
Collected at the 2015 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. "The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair organizing collective acknowledges that we are on the traditional territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka. The Kanien'kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island called "Montreal" is known as Tiotia:ke in the language of the Kanien'kehá:ka, and it has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations, including the Algonquin peoples. The Anarchist Bookfair collective believes it's not enough just to acknowledge the keepers of this land. We encourage everyone participating in the Bookfair to get informed and educated, and to actively resist colonialism and neo-colonialism in the many forms it takes, and in the diversity of forms that resistance can take too." -- Montreal Anarchist Bookfair website
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