Week 8 Blog Post

For this weeks blog i wanted to write about Migration is Beautiful but since it's been covered a couple times I'm choosing Pussy Power by Favianna Rodriguez, which no one has talked about. This image has a message that is in your face holding nothing back, it is a message of power through sexuality and the double standard of being called a slut as a woman but not as a man. I think this is exactly why no one has talked about it, because this oppressive double standard is so ingrained in our culture, especially as people of color. This image however, is about taking back the word slut and using it as an identifier of power and fighting back against the male oppressors. It is not necessarily a message against men however, it clearly states a war on women is a war on everyone. This message to me points out that there should be solidarity between men and women as equals with neither one oppressing the other. The anger in the message just stems from the historic and persistent inequality. I think it is a very important message and it is very blunt, which is very much my style of being brutally honest.