I picked this topic on behalf of being in the LGBT community as well its 2015 a lot of people are being socially accepted. Even though the Supreme Court ruled to legalize same sex marriage there are still issues in LGBT community that needs to be addressed. The main concern was same sex marriage but now and what has been is to keep people in the LGBT community alive and secure. Being aware about this matter was the hearing on the news of transgender women being pushed into trains or murdered in the streets demonstrates there to be an improvement. The number of transgender women has increased in the U.S especially in 2015. "1,731 reported murder of trans and gender variant people" since 2008 alone ( The Cut,Dayna Evans). There may be more that aren't documented. Transgender women of color, Black and Latina, are individuals to be more targeted. Amaro says, "We live in a time when there's an increased visibility of transgender people like Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, Caitlin Jenner," (fsrn.org). People became more aware about transgender individuals and most of the feedback was positive but it also did backfire. In 2009, President Obama signed the Hate Crime Prevention Plan for transgender protection but so far it hasn't taken affect. It may also be because trans genders are visible some say but it also does create awareness and a closer step to handle another dilemma (fsnr.org,Larry Buhl).
Transgender women are discriminated in housing, health care, education and employment. It leads trans people to undergo a difficult time also leading to be victimized. But my first realization of people in the LGBT community still facing difficulty after the big moment of legalizing same sex marriage is what I mentioned earlier a women being pushed over onto the subway tracks. So I'll be including it in my artwork to represent this issue.
The artwork will be a poster, a drawing divided into four sections where trans people are most likely to be effected which I'll draw backgrounds involving a hospital, subway, school, and a home. It will involve a slightly broken mannequin with women clothing positioned differently in each section representing vulnerability. There will also be a reflection of red and blue lighting as well to show the danger trans people encounter. The red and blue light will be the only part colored on the white piece of paper to get the idea of lacking public authority on the locations I referred to as well rough outline on the mannequin with the locations lightly outlined.
I'd post this canvas in schools, hospitals, social network, and subway stations. Basically where there are a lot of people to at least get a glimpse of it or the social media since everyone is attached to technology. I want kids, teens, adults, everyone to at least be conscious of this matter but it will be for trans activists and supporters to know they aren't alone. You can spread the awareness by #Iamtrans
This is a great topic and worthy of increased public awareness. Do you see it as a poster than can be put up in different places? If so, maybe it has some information on it or a hashtag so that when people take a pic of it they can share it o social media with the hashtag.
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