I Care A Lot - submission
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Pieces submitted for Icarealot . "Women's body hair removal is strongly normative within contemporary Western culture. Although often trivialised, (...) the hairlessness norm powerfully endorses the assumption that a woman's body is unacceptable if unaltered; its very normativity points to a socio-cultural presumption that hairlessness is the appropriate condition for the feminine body." "Gender and body hair: constructing the feminine woman", abstract extract The pieces I presented for ICareALot were especially made to take part in the debate about Middle East, from a post-feminist point of view. They were dedicated to the Iranian photographer Mehraneh Atashi who had just been arrested around the same time when I came across the Icarealot call for submission. The necklaces were made thinking of the women who could wear them as a passive sign of rebellion against a certain male abuse of power. As the pieces come as beautiful objects to wear