Bloody Lies
Bloody Lies is a project I did about raising awareness about period pains and how they should be taken seriously. In my project I created a zine about period myths as I think part of getting women to be taken seriously is to abolish these myths that have been ingrained into our community. I referred back to old period advice that I researched from the wellcome collection that now when looking at it seems ridiculous such as drinking wine mixed with cocaine. I then paired it with myths that people still believe today to convey how they are also ridiculous.
I then decided I wanted to create a poster to help raise awareness. I decided to focus on the misconception of periods being dirty. I illustrated people holding period products and talking about their periods and surrounded them by people looking disgusted and scared to imply how silly the fear and disgust people have towards periods is.
I decided to take this poster into screenprint to create a series of posters that I exhibited at UAL Camberwell.
I also made period pants and period pad earrings to imply the beauty of periods and help with normalising and take away the idea of periods being dirty.
Women Are Not Objects
I created this series of illustrations to raise awareness about the objectification of women in domestic settings. The idea was to imply how women are expected to do these tasks and imply that they are seen literally as the objects that they use to do these tasks.
Iron
Pan
Hoover
Dress Appropriately
Dress Appropriately is a project I did about street abuse women experienced on the daily. I collected street abuse phrases that women have experienced. I spoke to the people around me as well as using phrases from @catcallsofnyc on instagram to create this collection. As the book progresses the women become more and more modestly dressed but the street abuse still persists. This is to imply the message it doesn’t matter what she was wearing and to stop victim blaming.
Lila’s Lunch
Lila’s Lunch is a children’s book I am currently working on. It’s about a girl called Lila who brings chickpea curry to school and gets bullied for it. She ends up sat alone as no one wants to sit next to the girl with weird food. This story aims to normalise different cultures and their food and help children who may be experiencing similar things feel comfortable in their culture.
