When I think of an issue that is addressing by artist and activist, is the issue of sexual violence and the mistreatment of women, children, and men. For many years people have been sexually assaulted and society has ignored those victims. Instead of comforting the victims, some people tend to make them feel like it’s their fault. They must have done something to provoke it. This is wrong to think of and what makes things worst is the women that feel confident and strong enough to report the sexual violence, don’t get to see justice being served. Some men who commit rape don’t get the punishment they deserve like Stanford university student Brock Turner who raped a woman who was passed out and could not give consent to sex. He had a quote on quote “squeaky clean image”, he was an aspirating Olympic swimmer and because of this the judge was more lenient and instead of him serving a 14-year prison sentence he got to serve a six-month sentence. Good grades don’t clear someone from life in prison.
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| Brock Turner http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/to-the-swimmer-who-raped-a-girl-at-stanford-im-sorry-we-have-failed-you-by-giving-you-an-inadequate-a7069111.html |
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Thus, creating artwork to express sexually violence and to stand up for woman’s rights. An amazing art exhibit that made it on the Huffington Post is called the “What Were You Were?” The exhibit is being displayed at the University of Kansas and it shares the 18 stories of sexual violence and displays the clothes that they were wearing at the time they were assaulted. Mostly women who were sexually assault get asked what were you wear when you were raped. As if, the clothes that you wear invites a man to assault you. “Maybe the dress was too revealing, maybe you were showing off too much”. These are the kinds of questions that raped victims get asked. The creator of the art exhibit is Jen Brockman and she is the director of KU’s sexually assault prevention and education center and she stated “the main goal of “What Were You Wearing?” is to promote awareness about sexual violence and to combat victim-blaming.” Rape is very high in many colleges and many times rape goes unnoticed on the college campus. Going and seeing the exhibits makes anyone think about what the victims were going through and it also makes you think about the clothes that they were wearing. It’s the typical clothing, baggy shirt and jeans, and as someone looking on the outside you start to think wow I have that shirt or I have that bikini top. The exhibit makes you think and makes you talk about the clothes and what lead up to it. Reading the fear, they must have
Another artist that made a statement with her art piece is feminist artist Monica Mayer. Her project is called El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project. Her exhibit asks a total of five questions some being if they ever experienced sexual harassment and sexual violence, what have you done to prevent it, and how do you find joy after experiencing it. People from the audience to respond to their experiences and what they have gone through. The pink papers have the answers and that becomes the artwork. All long wall with pink postcards hanging on clothespins. 
Sexual violence is such a culture issue especially now with the many women and men from Hollywood coming out to tell their stories. Men in the Hollywood industrial take advantage of the power they have over people. They see themselves as better than anyone and guess what they can actually get away with it. So many directors and actors aren't being processed into the system. All they get is a slap on the wrist and continue to make millions, while their victims don’t receive any respect. A big activist in stopping Hollywood rape is Rose McGowan. She isn’t afraid of what the big Hollywood executive would do her she uses her celebrity platform and tweets about the issues in Hollywood. Last year she sent out a tweet to her 900k followers stated the following “To the women and men in the entertainment industry who know exactly whom and what I am talking about, I say be brave…You are culpable for your actions. Stop rewarding sociopaths. Every time you sanction abhorrent behavior, you are aiding and abetting a crime, that makes you no better than the criminal. How many more stories to you have to hear before you do the right thing and stop rewarding men that are predators?”. She doesn’t want the women in Hollywood to fear these men and that we should stick together and fight against them. She also stood up against the biggest person who is guilty of treat women like crap, the one, and only Trump. She made a video tell women how to stop Trump during the elections.
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