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Curating the Art of the Resistance

  • Genine Babakian
  • Jan 26, 2017
  • 1 min read

When I am really standing up straight, I reach 5’2” – not a particularly great height to be in a crowd of, say, half a million people marching in Washington. Huddled within those jubilant masses last weekend, though, I did have a fantastic view when I looked up – at all the clever signs. At the end of the day, when my fellow marchers gathered around a table to share highlights of the day, clever signage was a recurring theme. Many of them had to do with women’s reproductive rights, like:

  • If my uterus were a corporation, would you stop regulating it?

  • Let’s talk about the elephant in the womb

  • If men got pregnant, you could get an abortion at an ATM

  • I’m not ovary-acting

But that was just a small sampling of the humor and creativity that graced those placards. Among my favorites were:

  • Urine Trouble Donald

  • So bad even introverts are marching

  • Twinkle, Twinkle little czar, Putin put you where you are

  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun-damental Human Rights

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We all agreed that these would make a fascinating museum exhibit. I am delighted to see that others had the same idea. Museums around the world are collecting signs from the Women’s Marches. The art work of the resistance lives on.


 
 
 

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