March 8th, The Day of Womxn

[Alejo]

The artist Judy Chicago did a ceramic and textile series a good while back called The Dinner Party. It was a series of dinner place settings, some plates were in high relief and had some degree of representation of female genitalia. Each plate was uniquely decorated to represent an historic or legendary figure. It really pushed the edges of acceptability, I thought. An original project, to say the least. I spent the day thinking about why I wasn't offended by this, and why the prints about menstruation bothered me so much. I think the use of the word womxn might have primed me to a state of disgust in this case.
But actually, there is just no comparison as far as the artistic quality.

Here is a little tour of of the art installation, if anyone is interested:

I agree, on this one there's at least an effort to create something as opposed to simply print a cartoon of a bodily function.

And I don't want to speak out of place, but there were perhaps better ways to commemorate women that had been forgotten by history than by focusing on simply a body part I would think. I don't know but I would like to think that if someone would like to be remembered, it would be because of behavior and acts and not because of their body. So while I appreciate the craft and skill needed to create the piece, I don't know why the theme of genitalia. But then again, maybe I don't know enough about art