Date Created: October 2013
Medium: Thin Black Sharpie on A4 size Ivory Sheet
“I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”-Emma Watson
The poster above was made by me for a school project about women’s rights. Thousands of women around the world suffer and are denied basic rights. Although much of the world has evolved but there are still few pockets of the world where evil lives and she [woman] suffers. On this note, I am reminded of a beautiful poem by Annie Louisa Walker:
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Women’s Rights
You cannot rob us of the rights we cherish,
Nor turn our thoughts away
From the bright picture of a “Woman’s Mission”
Our hearts portray.
We claim to dwell, in quiet and seclusion,
Beneath the household roof,–
From the great world’s harsh strife, and jarring voices,
To stand aloof;–
Not in a dreamy and inane abstraction
To sleep our life away,
But, gathering up the brightness of home sunshine,
To deck our way.
As humble plants by country hedgerows growing,
That treasure up the rain,
And yield in odours, ere the day’s declining,
The gift again;
So let us, unobtrusive and unnoticed,
But happy none the less,
Be privileged to fill the air around us
With happiness;
To live, unknown beyond the cherished circle,
Which we can bless and aid;
To die, and not a heart that does not love us
Know where we’re laid.
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It is her right to live, to breathe, to study, to play, to work, to do whatever she likes and we must not dare to take it away from her.