"Feminism has done a lot for women, right? And it’s changed a lot too. After three waves of bickering over what is and isn’t appropriate patriarchy-dismantling conduct, the movement has now adopted a more laissez-faire attitude towards women’s behaviour: Fuck the Madonna/whore complex, the fourth wave declares, and put it in a NutriBullet. Fuck the housewife/CEO binary and the girly girl/tomboy dichotomy. Women can be sexual or puritanical or maternal or spawn-phobic or heavily made-up or #nomakeup or waxed or shaved or any number and mixture of things once categorised as either patriarchy-sanctioned or patriarchy-condemned. It’s all OK! You can be cheer captain and on the bleachers! Radical softness! Woo!"
This excerpt from a magazine article on Dazed magazine has inspired one of my photo series ideas which is depicting different stereotypes of women viewed in society, specifically media. It would explore female archetypes such as housewife, CEO, etc.
I also have another idea of depicting working class women in Miami, mainly Latinx and Black women that transcend struggle. The photos will comment on society's treatment of working class women and their hardships.
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