Many people who are from the LGBTQ+ community are often cornered due to how they identify sexually or by their gender. This being said, we should not be defined by this term. It does not define us as human beings to be attracted to another human being. We are human!
As a member of the community myself, I identify as female but my sexuality is pansexual, meaning I could care less for your gender but I care for who you are as a person. Am I attracted to you via your personality? That is the real question, yet when people find out about my sexuality, I am viewed completely differently and many change their attitudes towards me. It is honestly upsetting and makes me doubt myself as a human being, making me self-conscious and not wanting to trust others with this information.
My inspiration to do this silent protest was Adrian Piper, given to me by the professor. After looking up many of her images, I decided for my protest to hold my sign up but cover my mouth with it as a sign that my voice has not been reached but maybe you will take the time to read instead.
A quote that stuck out to be by Adrian Piper was, "One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer...In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer."
I strongly agree with the quote because, as artists, we are the people that get the visual images out there, may it be prints, photography, or paintings/drawings. We are the people who make a difference in the world of news. When the news people broadcast the world events, like COVID, for instance, it was just words and hearsay. The artists are the ones who were making the signs and other things to tell you to mask up, wash your hands, and the effects COVID can bring. For the Holocaust, for example, if it wasn't for the writings or the drawings that prisoners made during their stay in the camps, we would have never known about the horrors on the inside, the disgusting things that the Nazis were doing to the innocent people.
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