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STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE
Stories of Street Harassment and How We're Taking Back Our Power
Stop Telling Women to Smile is the debut book from a celebrated artist on the urgent topic of street harassment that grew out of the public art series the author created.
Consisting of black-and-white posters, ranging in size from a picket sign to the side of a three-story building, each poster features a beautifully sketched portrait of an individual woman positioned above text that speaks from her personal experience with street harassment, directly to offenders. What started as an experimental art piece in Brooklyn turned into an international movement, with iterations in Los Angeles, Miami, Baltimore, Mexico City, Paris, and Geneva, among others.
Stop Telling Women to Smile is a celebration of the author's art, a rallying read for women who are fed up with their own harassment experiences, and a statement on how pervasive the problem of street harassment really is, this is a singular and important book.
Sitting at the cross-section of social activism, art, community engagement, and feminism, it brings to the page the author's arresting and famous street art - featuring the faces and voices of everyday women as they talk about the experience of living in communities that are supposed to be their homes yet are frequently hostile.
Among the lessons of the #metoo movement is that countless women experience harassment, and that women are more eager than ever to share experiences and recognize common oppression. Fazlalizadeh has been contributing to these conversations through her street art since 2012. This perfectly timed, singular collection of profiles, short essays, and original artwork unforgettably shows how it affects women based on gender presentation, race, class, age, and other intersecting identities.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a classically trained oil painter and street artist, a Forbes "30 Under 30" recipient, and one of Brooklyn Magazine's "Most Influential People." Her street art series, Stop Telling Women to Smile, has been covered by Time, NPR, MSNBC, Oxygen Network, and others. Fazlalizadeh lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Stop Telling Women to Smile is a celebration of the author's art, a rallying read for women who are fed up with their own harassment experiences, and a statement on how pervasive the problem of street harassment really is, this is a singular and important book.
Sitting at the cross-section of social activism, art, community engagement, and feminism, it brings to the page the author's arresting and famous street art - featuring the faces and voices of everyday women as they talk about the experience of living in communities that are supposed to be their homes yet are frequently hostile.
Among the lessons of the #metoo movement is that countless women experience harassment, and that women are more eager than ever to share experiences and recognize common oppression. Fazlalizadeh has been contributing to these conversations through her street art since 2012. This perfectly timed, singular collection of profiles, short essays, and original artwork unforgettably shows how it affects women based on gender presentation, race, class, age, and other intersecting identities.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a classically trained oil painter and street artist, a Forbes "30 Under 30" recipient, and one of Brooklyn Magazine's "Most Influential People." Her street art series, Stop Telling Women to Smile, has been covered by Time, NPR, MSNBC, Oxygen Network, and others. Fazlalizadeh lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Published 2020-02-04 by Seal Press |