The Degree show looms. I have decided that I am just showing my 90 pieces and also a book of prints of The Patriarchal Society. So, now I am working on the book and it is time consuming!
I think I have sourced my perspex for the show. It will cover all the prints – protecting them and allowing people to walk over them. I want this metaphor of the flowers as downtrodden, walked over and trampled upon. The victims of of the Patriarchal Society.
Nothing seems to change. Everything just reinforces my view that women’s rights for equality haven’t made that much progress in the last 45 years. Look at those poor girls in Nigeria:
<http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/05/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/>
The leader of Boko Haram – which means Western Education is Forbidden – says:
“There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women,”
adding:
“Girls, you should go and get married,”
So these poor girls who were taken over two weeks ago have probably been sold into a vicious form of eternal islamic slavery called forced marriage.
Imagine how distraught their families must be. They wanted their daughters educated so they had a chance in life, and now they fear their daughters face a pitiful life ” married ” to leaders and sympathisers of a barbaric terrorist group.
Finally, after this amount of time, America and Britain are helping. The Nigerian Government asked for help.
What kept the Government from appealing before? Perhaps they didn’t care. Perhaps they thought it would blow over. Perhaps they just thought it was a bunch of school girls. Thnk god for social media which doesn’t let these things blow over. Since then another 8 girls have been kidnapped.
I hope the outside governments can help..
So Education is dangerous for girls.
Isn’t this where I began – with Malala being shot in the head because she wanted an education?
It makes me feel so dispondant.
More women are needed in Parliament – in office everywhere. The childish Etonians who dominate our politics put most women off and in other countries – like Afganistan, they turn off womens’ microphones – so no one can hear them.
