September | 2023 | FREE SPEECH & Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

“Society of Obstinate Headstrong Women” of which I am a proud member! My art-above- exhibited includes QR codes to scan which identify issues facing women since 1813 and before! ongoing issues of equality, rights and identity. Intensely amazing exhibit! Women lead the way! Support Women Artists!

Oakton’s Annual WGSS Program Art Exhibition, in its 15th year, is drawn to respond to what’s happening in the world and to our communities. There have been many changes in U.S. legislation in the last year that threaten our bodily autonomy, our gender identities, our sexualities, and our intellectual freedoms. Alongside the shifts in law and policy have been a culture of exclusion and violence at the local, state, national, and corporate levels. What undergirds this legislation? Why have women and pregnant persons across our country lost access to vital reproductive healthcare services? Why are transgender youth the targets of increasingly discriminatory laws? Why are book bans and censorship threatening our public libraries and schools? And what kind of society do we live in when a drag queen story hour becomes the site of politicized violence and state control? As history reveals time and time again, the fight for justice and equity is never finished. We have witnessed renewed attacks on reproductive justice, bans on life-affirming care for transgender and non-binary youth, attacks on the freedom of ideas and teaching accurate history in education, book bans and censorship, racialized terror and gun violence, and environmental threats to indigenous communities and ecosystems. We are in the fight of our lives and we refuse to go backwards. How can we work together to create a more just and liberatory society for ALL of us?

Special Thanks to; Lindsey Hewitt: The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program at Oakton College WGSS Art Show and Nathan Harpaz, Ph.D., manager of the Koehnline Museum of Art.

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