Genevieve Yapelli

Nine Ways to be Catty
collage
14 x 11 in.

It is problematic when a minority group internalizes the means used to oppress it. Women often take on guises presupposed by society that, for example, equate femininity to oversexualization and submission. We imagine ourselves to have take power when in fact we have fed our oppression by taking on the means that necessarily make us powerless.