Mar 8 2023 - Pink for International Women's Day

 

The Bing picture today is the Madrid City Hall lit in pink for International Women's Day.  That now seems funny and ironic, given how pink and blue were interchanged colours to represent babies/children over the centuries.   And so it does seem amusing that the celebration of women should come with all kinds of associations.   I find out from a 2017 article that in China, "Little Pink" was a term for cyber-nationalists. This seems a complicated story.  We are aware of pink as the colour of Breast Cancer Awareness month, during which people wear a pink ribbon to honour survivors and those who have died of the disease. What about "Pinkwashing?" -  a term used to describe practices that appear to promote LGBTQ+ rights or breast cancer awareness to downplay negative aspects of a corporation or political entity. The term "pink tax" is also used to describe the fact that women often pay more for products marketed specifically for women.  Did you know that?  Go over to the men's shampoo and find it cheaper.   Sports teams sometimes paint the opposing team's locker room pink to keep the players passive and less energetic. The Iowa Hawkeyes have a pink visiting team locker room at their Kinnick Stadium conceived by Iowa coach Hayden Fry, who had majored in psychology at Baylor University. He believed that the all-pink room would mess with the minds of the opposing teams.  And there we are with some of the possibilities of pink on International Women's Day. There are lots of pink lilies. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Mar 8 2021 - Choose to Challenge

 

The theme this year is "Choose to Challenge".    There is a colour for Women's Day:  purple, green and white - well, three colours.  They symbolize justice and dignity, hope and purity.  They originated in 1908. The sense of an International day for women is consistent with all international days for and against something.  These are days to recognize achievements, raise awareness about equality, lobby for parity and raise money for charities.   As for International Women's Day - it is the sheer number of people seeking autonomy and human rights.  The pictures around the world are compelling.   Who is the Manif Pour Tous group? They are shown marching through the Eiffel Tower in Paris and their "uniform" is eerie, even creepy.  So I looked them up. This information comes from Here Originally created to oppose the French bill on same-sex marriage, La Manif Pour Tous (LMPT) has broadened its claims to the defense of the “traditional family” and the opposition to a fictional “gender theory”. Links with other organisations: Many links with anti-choice organisations (Alliance Vita, Fondation Jérome Lejeune) and with far-right organisations. Key statement: “La Manif pour tous defends mariage and filiation in line with the gendered reality of mankind, which consequence is at the same time sexual difference and complementarity that are inescapable to conceive a child and to assume the mother-father and the motherhood-fatherhood differences”  The picture has made the cover likely because it looks similar to the   uniform in The Handmaid's Tale.  Here it is.    This diptych is one of the montage series.  It is a curved palm leaf overlayed with textures.  Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca