For my intervention performance/protest, I did a get ready with me video. It’s about 40 to 50 minutes long. I was getting ready for a date with my boyfriend that day and I decided to also do my video and talk about what issues are important and raise awareness. My topic was based on LGBTQ issues and also my experiences with different types of issues. I talk about my experience with coming out to someone who was close to me and not being accepted for my sexuality, family, and being in a genderfluid relationship (me) with my boyfriend. There are still a lot of issues and hate towards the LGBTQ community. I felt like I had to put my thoughts into the situation, it also helped me just by talking about it. During this video, I wanted people to maybe dress up with me or just put me as background sound while they do their homework. I want people to see that I’m doing what anyone would do when they’re about to go on a date, I’m the same as them. And when they see that there are no barriers between us, does it question you why there is hate towards the LGBTQ community?
Performances, protests, and actions help raise awareness on many issues including representation in art. The Guerrilla Girls used different types of art to bring awareness to sexism, racism, and more. “Messages left at telephone numbers circulating on art world grapevines elicited call-backs from women who identified themselves in muffled voices as Frida Kahlo, Romaine Brooks, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others'' (pg 8). The Guerilla Girls used this to show that there are women artists that are being neglected despite their beautiful and powerful work. There were people that hated them and also said that it was anti-male and called paintings PMS. However, there were also people that adored the Guerilla Girls and the impact they made or awareness they brought, even if it brought haters.“Instead, they use a rapier wit to fire volley after volley of carefully researched statistics at art world audiences, exposing individuals and institutions that underrepresent or exclude women and artists of color from exhibitions, collections and funding”(pg 7). They not only made powerful posters, but they thoroughly researched the discrimination being brought to different types of people.
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