Intervention Project- Meme's as Protest Art

 Meme's:

    I chose to write my meme’s about LGBTIA+ due to being a member of the community. I feel like it is easier to talk about something that I’m very passionate about and something that is an issue to this day. There are still very close-minded people about same sex relationships and think it's a sin. More and more people get hate based off their sexuality and don't get support from their friends and family like they anticipated. Not everyone is lucky enough to get support, so I find it important that the ones who did receive support to help others and let them know it’s okay.

These memes can be counted as political art because the fight for same sex marriage took a while to happen until it eventually did on June 26, 2015. In the Vice article, Memes Are Our Generation’s Protest Art by Sage Lazzaro, it states, “They spread so quickly and evolve and transform, and it’s hard to shut them down in the way other forms of communicative protest can be silenced.” I loved this quote because I completely agree how fast social media spreads stuff whether its good or bad and gets the word out there faster than if it was something in person. Another quote from the article, How Memes Are Making Protest Art More Powerful by Lizzie Fison, states, “Like with memes, Farage’s image (or, in this case, speech) was co-opted and an entirely new meaning was ascribed through the addition of Dance’s text. It clearly struck a chord, and by the next day the video of the parliamentary session had gone viral, being shared thousands of times on social media.” When it comes to meme’s, it can make or break a person or a situation. Meme’s are peoples escape in the world and how they deal with their problems with some dark humor.