I began making some preliminary drawings to try and tackle the lack of diversity within current mainstream feminism. It was here I began to realise this was a far harder task than I anticipated it to be.
While image making is something that comes relatively easy to me, it became evident to me that it was hard to create images about something I had no personal experience of. Though I have been reading case studies and examples of issues faced by female minorities, I feel as a straight white cis-gendered female I don't have a voice of authority over issues I can't claim to suffer with; for me to dictate the issues of women of colour for example seems VERY unjust. In doing that, I would also be completely working alongside Tong's notion that Western women often impose their issues onto women of different axes of identity- something I was hoping to combat.
This has lead to to believe I MUST include the opinions of other women. If I can conduct further primary research in the form of interviews, the imagery I'm creating will fit authentic issues of real world women. Perhaps the way to tackle lack of diversity is by SHOWING how inclusivity can be accomplished.
If I'm going to pursue this further, I need to consider the format. This project began with a grounding in zine culture, so perhaps the final outcome could be in the form of a zine? (Though is this a highly resolved final outcome? Does this do enough?).
I think I'd definitely like to go in the route of a publication, mixing the results of interviews with primary research through drawing from myself.
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