WHY ONLY NOW?

Tiger Grrrl (with black dress and red border) by The Mollusc Dimension © The Mollusc Dimension (see below for reuse info).

Tiger Grrrl (with black dress and red border) by The Mollusc Dimension
© The Mollusc Dimension (see below for reuse info).



Content note: refs to anti-Black racism, deaths and police brutality.

Tiger Grrrl (who I created in 2008) is a symbol of intersectional feminist resistance. She was first exhibited in a group show in 2008, and the core of her rage is solidarity for survivors of child abuse. I did not publicly announce this because I planned to make a brief animation about it, but ran into obstacles and it was not yet produced. Therefore, not many people know that this is the original point behind the character. 

Tiger Grrrl has been made into t-shirts (sold out), stickers (distributed) and posters, she appeared on anti-borders event promo and also at an anti-Trump protest. Here she is with a new colour scheme to protest police brutality, femicide and violence against BIPOC and other marginalised people.

Tiger Grrrl decries violence and police violence against gender non-conforming people, BIPOC especially including young people and children. 

People who say, “oh but this is just one case” ignore the many cases of police brutality, ongoing and forgotten. For every time we say Sarah Everard's name, let us think of the forgotten and the conveniently erased. It is not just white women who get murdered. It is not just white women who experience police brutality.

K-Dogg (ongoing) BBC News (Content note: image of injury following physical attack)
Osime Brown (faces deportation) The Independent
Nina Pop (d) Pink News
Breonna Taylor (d) BBC News
Ahmaud Arbery (d) The Guardian
and many more.
Some case documented by The Fake Pan (will these include trans BIPOC women?)

I hope that the vigil and the protest for Sarah may bring previously divided feminist communities together and raise important questions such as:

What if Sarah Everard was a trans or intersex young person or indeed a trans or intersex person of any age? 
What if she had been BIPOC person?
Would the media be paid to care? 

People say we do this for clout. But

Colonialism is clout.
Capitalism is clout.
Cruelty is clout.
Cages are clout.

Colonialism and capitalism run on cruelty.
When consent is not taught or activated, the lack of consent is normalised and keeps the system running.

patriarchy, keeper of statues

working
too weary to protest
too scared to move
too sad to live 
too angry to cry

we are the children 
who grow in rest 
who dance in the flames
who survive
we are louder than statues

Tiger Grrrl (with black dress and red border) by The Mollusc Dimension © The Mollusc Dimension. Free for non-commercial pro-intersectional feminist use, with attribution. Please contact me for editorial use.

Tiger Grrrl (with black dress and red border) by The Mollusc Dimension
© The Mollusc Dimension.

Free for non-commercial pro-intersectional feminist use, with attribution.
Please contact me for editorial use.

 
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