This Artist Wants to Empower Women by Using and Loving Their Own Bodies
2014.07.04
Carol Rossetti posts empowering and quirky illustrations of women to Facebook with the intention of promoting positive body image and protesting the world's attempts at controlling how women's bodies should look like and how women should behave.
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5. To racial stereotypes.
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1. She encourages women to take control of their bodies and identities.
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2. "I can't change the world by myself," Rossetti has said. "But I'd love to know that my work made people review their privileges and be more open to understanding and respecting one another."
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3. She addresses every body image issue...
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4. From societal judgement of weight and body shape
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5. To racial stereotypes.
6. She tackles women's rights.
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7. And sexual orientation...
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8. And sexual assault.
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9. Most importantly, you have to love your own body. And own it.
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