‘Not Yours’ Favorite 

Practitioner: 

Date: 

May 1 0000

Location: 

Ontario, Canada.

“My image was inspired by the #MeToo Revolution, my personal experiences with the male gaze and a healthy amount of frustration and repulsion. What I hope to convey in this image is the sense of verbal, physical and energetic male ownership that is placed on women in society.”

— Beata Kruszynski is a freelance illustrator and art teacher in Ontario, Canada.

External sources: 

https://beatakruszynski.com/
Posted by Laraferreri on Feb 15 2023

Staff rating: 

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
Does nothing (at all)Doesn't really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist's dissatisfaction with the world.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear long-term goal. Long-term goals tend to be things like: end racism; end homophobia; make the sun stand still in the sky. A campaign with a long-term goal also needs to have some kind of theory of change.
Spread awareness about how men sexualize women’s bodies.

Notes

This piece of art lives online for people to see, but how many people really saw it? I think this could be more effective if her website was more accessible beyond being posted in The New York Times.