Gender Equality

Gallery of Art

The following collection of art shows the reflective, expressive commentary of our group after a semester studying gender inequities in health care access, wages, legal representation, and social discourse. Our group has drawn from a range of intersectional understandings of gender inequality in the United States, as is evident from issues of race, religion, and socioeconomic structures discussed in the artwork. Over the course of this year, we have called politicians to put pressure on them to address gender issues, made videos, educated our friends, and finally produced this project to commemorate our learning with something fun, artistic, and cathartic. We hope that you will enjoy these individual artistic projects of ours, and that they impart our feelings at the culmination of a year of educative learning and action.

By Malachi Blenman

By Destiny Mendez

By Destiny Mendez

By Destiny Mendez

By Destiny Mendez

By Destiny Mendez

By Destiny Mendez

By Malachi Blenman

Call to Artists

Student Poetry

Indifference by Nayib Altareb: Untitled
by Stephanie Cruz
The girl got her four year degree She's working on her masters But some guys in her class, already on top And only needed a bachelors Men work harder than women That's not a fact, an opinion Men make more than women That's a fact, not an opinion Perhaps they're different from you physically But we are made equally We walk on the same ground But we are treated differently There was a time When the man worked and provided for the family And the women stayed in the house And cooked and cleaned The problem now is that Both the mother and the father work And then a baby-sitter is brought in, who majority are women And now we're back to square one: Sexualized from a young age,
A woman’s curves seen as more than her name Women can’t embrace it though,
Because no one wants a slut or hoe But if you are a virgin where’s the sex appeal
You realize we aren’t here to just keel Equality is all we need
Start by raising boys and girls the same If a boy is raised with a woman as his equal
he would probably know how to treat her Equality doesn’t mean being treated exactly the same way,
But it does mean getting the same rights resources and opportunities Equality means being able to wear what I want without being accused of “asking for it”

Equality means being able to walk into a meaning without being asked if you are a secretary or assistant

Equality means having a say over your body Equality means being able to walk alone at night without fearing for your life Equality means being able to have an opinion without being a “bitch” Equality means my president does not feel entitled to grab my pussy Equality begins with changing our mindsets of men and women
to human.

Students call their representatives

Gender Equality 2016

If there's anything we learned researching gender equality it's that there's no one-size-fits-all solution (much like our shirts). We decided our contribution to the conversation over gender equality needed to reflect that diversity, and so we designed several different shirts with different sizes, colors, and slogans and asked friends and strangers to take pictures wearing them. Their photos show the many faces of gender equality today.

After all the research we've done on all the different ways gender inequality affects people in their homes, workplaces, and schools, we designed our shirts to reflect our biggest conclusion: Gender equality starts with men, women, and non-binary individuals recognizing the inequalities present in our society and supporting an open dialogue for change.