A piece representing womanhood. The three teal circles in this image each indicate aspects of womanhood that often gets shamed and undervalued by the patriarchal society: pregnancy, menstruation and our pleasure/bodily autonomy. For generations we’ve been shamed for our natural existence and told to hide, cover up our bodies and keep our problems to ourselves because the patriarchy paints us as objects for the male pleasure. Our biological experiences such as our menstrual bleeding, pregnancy and giving birth are deemed ugly and we’re made to hide it because it makes Men uncomfortable. They rely on us and crave love and sex but wish to remain ignorant to our true nature. They shame us and judge us for our natural bodies, and we Women now live in fear and shame over our own innate power. 

 

Our natural bodies and biological needs should be honoured by society, we shouldn’t be villainized for our human nature. We should have more understanding towards women and what we go through because unfortunately women are still silenced and faced with injustice till this day. Women in the patriarchy are broken down by the system which teaches so much hatred and excuses the harm that’s done by Men. But regardless of how much they try to silence us, no matter how much they try to break us, our strength and powerful female nature will always prevail.