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Stop telling women to smile.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Women
Feminism
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I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Oil
Painter
Painting
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Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Black
Body
Media
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Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Different
Thinking
Where You Live
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I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Color
Feminist
Issues
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I'll definitely pay attention to someone who is critiquing the artwork. But as far as someone not thinking street harassment is a big deal or that I'm being uptight? I don't think that's a valid critique.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Attention
Thinking
Uptight
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I sat down and came up with a caption that I thought would fit well on the poster - something that was short and succinct but got a point across. The latest poster was a direct quote - it was exactly what the woman told me.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Down And
Fit
Posters
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I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Men
Color
Perspective
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I've generally gotten negative feedback from men who don't understand and don't find street harassment to be a serious issue. I've also gotten a lot of responses from women who are appreciative and thankful for the project; who relate to it who are passionate about it.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Men
Issues
Negative
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In Boston, a couple of the women were students and they mentioned how Boston has a huge student population, and that's specific to their experiences of street harassment. They feel like the men were a lot more aggressive, particularly when it comes to social outings and things like that.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Men
Boston
Couple
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It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Art
People
Thinking
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You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common thing is men feeling entitled to treat you how they want to treat you. You never feel as though you have a right to the space. And so that's the theme behind most of the posters - "I'm not outside for your entertainment" and "I'm not seeking your validation."
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Men
Space
Validation
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I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Men
Believe
Character
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Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Couple
Eye
Powerful
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I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh /
Creating
Talking
Thinking
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