{"id":3339,"date":"2014-07-15T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=3339"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:36:45","slug":"blog-roll-an-artist-demands-civility-on-the-street-with-grit-and-buckets-of-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/blog-roll-an-artist-demands-civility-on-the-street-with-grit-and-buckets-of-paste\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Takes Her Public Art Project to Georgia<\/span><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0FELICIA R. LEE<\/a>\u00a0

ATLANTA \u2014 With a lick of wheat paste, a roller and a stepladder,Tatyana Fazlalizadeh<\/a>, a painter and illustrator from Brooklyn, introduced herself to the South, in an unusual way.<\/p>\n

She plastered a poster with her own face floating above the words, \u201cStop Telling Women to Smile\u201d on a vacant storefront here, across from a federal courthouse.<\/p>\n

Then Ms. Fazlalizadeh and her helpers brushed on two dozen more posters she had created. Images of young faces stared back with wary, defiant and no-nonsense gazes above statements such as \u201cMy Outfit Is Not an Invitation,\u201d or \u201cWomen Do Not Owe You Their Time or Conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The words came from Ms. Fazlalizadeh\u2019s interviews with women about \u201ccatcalling,\u201d a form of public harassment by men who feel free to comment on their bodies and demeanor. Women around the country have begun to speak out publicly, in blogs,\u00a0public writing projects<\/a>\u00a0and on the websites of anti-harassment groups like Stop Street Harassment and\u00a0Hollaback!,<\/a>\u00a0which document and research the problem. Many women have said they feel objectified and demoralized by sexual comments made on the street, and Ms. Fazlalizadeh has transformed their feelings and images \u2014 she photographs the women and then creates pencil drawings \u2014 into a major public art project.<\/p>\n

To read the full article, please visit the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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