Women, eh?

About this artwork

Women in 2021 are assured we have achieved equality of opportunity. Legislation is there to prove it. In post 1970s feminism, concepts like “girl power” and “laddism” became accepted constructs designed to encourage women to believe their fight for recognition was over. Media images and narratives perpetuated myths of female empowerment even while proving time after time these were socially constructed lies and whilst the female eunuch might look different, she was just as powerless as her sisters from centuries ago. Different methods in 2021 but same result - we are silenced, blinded, mummified, vilified. The term post-feminism is a clever device used to perpetuate patriarchal power systems; a sexed up, fucked up lie masked as a truism. Women, eh difficult women women with a mind shroud in bandages, mummify them, bury them alive she’s still talking Mummification not creation more a living death stuff their mouths, cover their ears desecrate, suffocate is she talking now penetrate, denigrate, ridicule and patronise bind her and blind her stab deep into her eyes humiliate, castigate, pickle her brain in bile stitch her lips together in a semblance of a smile she’s not talking now