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womyn
womyn
Bianca Edwards.
colophon.
This book is one of four, Printed with Imagewise press, of Eastleigh, Hampshire, 22nd of April 15.
Editor | Author | Project Director
Bianca Edwards.
Printer Imagewise press, Eastleigh, Hampshire.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without permission.
All images are © the artists, reproduced with the kind permission of the artists and/or their representatives.
foreward.
The book has been created as a response to myself partially, a reaction to my surroundings and the digital
wave of feminism we are in the midst of.The images are derived from a singular inspiration,
through my eyes, generation X feminist.
In the least narcissistic tone it’s a supply and demand for my own intentions, as well as something that I hope will
inspire creativity and awareness within others.
acknowledgements.
A first thank you to my mother, Alison.
Aimee Glen. Many a shared thought, thank you for helping me to realise
my ideas and thank you for being a friend.
Finally thank you to the creative people that I am surrounded by, for your unintentional inspiration and
support.
intro.
This book is a conceptualist feminist book.What that means to me, is the combination of my personal taste in aesthetics, with a word that defines me so deeply.
Being a feminist in its modernity to me, is about un-doing all the silent sexism that we are taught to be right
when young.
Old habits die-hard.
This book is one part feminist, one part conceptualism and one part a study of the human condition.
epigraph.Cunt is not a bad word.
Vagina is no longer a burden.Refuse to be ashamed of your anatomy.We are beautiful and powerful womym.
The source of our power,Is our cunts.
That which we’ve been told to hide,To protect,
Never to speak of.That which we grow from,
And develop.Where we bear children,
And shed our wombs by the moon.That which we are made to fear;
To worry about;To shave or not?
Does it smell?Is it weird?
Does it look right?From our beginning,
Our cunts are mysterious.It is we who must reclaim them.
Gain control over them,Learn to love,
Rather than shy away from.Cunt Cunt
Our cunts will be our saviours.
“Cunt” - Marigold,Dec 9, 2014.
prologue.In 1848 a 70-year fight for the right for womyn to vote
began. This was the first wave of feminism; now 167 years later we are still fighting for the right to control of our own bodies.
We are still shamed for self-expression.We are still taught to never walk alone at night, in case we
will get ourselves raped.Our femininity is the butt of jokes, and disgust.
We are used, we are disrespected and we are pronounced as a secondary sex.
Now, feminism has the biggest voice its ever had, we are a connected world, we can open our eyes to the atrocious way half of the worlds population is being treated, and we
can change it.
We are activists.
MIND.
Mindfulness
In its modernity being a feminist is in some part about unpicking what we have been brought up as
being the right way to conduct ourselves.
Our culture presents the victim as the fault,Human rights as a privilege,
Femininity as an object.
“Consent is not the absence of a no; it is the presence of a yes.”
-Erin Riordan.
“We’ve chosen the path to equality, don’t let them turn us around.”
-Geraldine Ferraro
“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an
animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.” -Frederica Mathewes-Green.
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
-Naomi Wolf.
“you might think I look like just a girl but you should be very, very afraid of me”
-Riot Grrrls.
“Riots grow out of intolerable conditions. Violent revolts are generated by revolting conditions,
through the language of the unheard”-Martin Luther King.
“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the
property of all women.” -Elizabeth Blackwell
ANATOMY
Why are we so afraid of our anatomy ?
We are embarrassed by our functions.We remove our physicality.We hide our humanness.
We distance ourself from ourselves and find Obscurity when we do not abide by this set of
patriarchal rules.
BODY.
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
-Plato
These fight to be the most heard in our actions, but knowledge seems to be the most
forgotten.
cult of femininity.
SOUL.
“In her soul you’ll findThe way to bring her back into your world
Grown mindBut she’s just a precious little girl
In her soul you’ll findThe things that made your life seem so
worthwhileThen you can give it in return”
- Kelly Price.
the woman I wanted to be.
epilogue.
What I am hoping for, with this book and its words is to raise awareness in a creative and
playful way, that it is quite human to be womyn and that we should celebrate this.
credits.Concept | Photography Post.
Bianca Edwards.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Meghan Stephens.PhotographyAimee Glenn.
ModelKristie Raymond.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | HairYoiwan Kong.PhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Gina Campone.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Meghan Stephens.PhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Bettie Harold-Sodipo
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Meghan Stephens.PhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Naomi Elliott.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Zaina IshaqPhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Jessica Boyd.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Emma PomphreyPhotography
Nicole Goodall.Model
Emily Fishleigh.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Emma PomphreyPhotography
Bettie Harold-SodipoModel
Chinah Keen.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.
PhotographyAimee Glenn.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.
PhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Gladmore Erm.
Concept | Direction | Post Model
Bianca Edwards.PhotographyAimee Glenn.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.
PhotographyNicole Goodall.
credits.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Zaina IshaqPhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Rachel Rowe
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.
PhotographyNicole Goodall.
Model Gladmore Erm.
Concept | Direction | PostModel
Bianca Edwards.Photography
Nicole Goodall.
Concept | Direction | Post Model
Bianca Edwards.Photography
Bettie Harold-Sodipo.
Concept | Direction | PostStyling
Bianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Zaina IsaiqPhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Andrea Bellometti.
Concept | Direction | Post | Styling | Makeup | Hair.
Bianca Edwards.PhotographyAimee Glenn.
ModelsJessica Geradi,Naomi Elliot,
Gina Campone,Emily Fishleigh,Emily Dorrian.
credits.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | HairAdam Swain.PhotographyAimee Glenn.
ModelEmilija Meidute.
Concept | Direction | PostBianca Edwards.Makeup | Hair
Zaina IshaqPhotographyAimee Glenn.
Model Rachel Rowe
I am womyn, hear me roar.
thank you.