Intervention 2

    Lots of signs are used during protests to show their voice in the matter when people can’t hear them. Most of them leave an impact on people because of how clever the words are, the image on the sign, or the information it has on it. People take their time to read signs, any type of signs, and it can make them react a certain way. I always wanted to use activism and art in my journey, especially making a poster of some kind to express my concern. At the moment, the most important issue that’s happening that not only affects me is making it illegal to have abortions. People that have a uterus most of the time have abortions due to financial problems, health issues, just not wanting them, and etc. We can do whatever we want to our bodies and it should be our choice because it’s ours. However, it seems that some people don’t get the memo and would like to control what people do to their bodies. There are multiple orphans in the system that need homes, however, they don’t care about the children or teens that are alive. They care more about the unborn child that still can’t breathe or think.

   I wanted my sign to be funny but also be on a little bit of the aggressive side. It was tricky to come up with something that no one had said or used during protests. I was inspired by a poster that was a picture of a cartoon baby getting thrown away, saying yeet. I just decided to yeet the haters too. I wanted to show that I didn’t care about the people that “know” what they were talking about when it was about our uteruses. I wanted them out of power and them to get kicked out, like the “child” that is “alive” in the uterus. “The streets shall be our brushes-the squares our palettes”, (The Interventionists, pg 133). I thought this quote represented the thousands of people walking down the street with signs and posters in their hands. Just that the citizens in the protest were brushing down the pavement with their brushes. Especially the signs that we made as a type of art. “It also presents risks, not only for artists, but for citizens, and even for the state as vanguard aesthetics appear to appropriate the very dynamic of the revolution itself”, (The Interventionists, pg 134). This reminds me of the struggle we are having with abortion rights and how it will affect everyone. Especially the attack protestors receive when on the streets to fight for their rights.