Bad Feminist (for Roxane Gay)

Abstract

My work explores topics of feminism and how growing up in the Midwest has influenced it. In The Role of Feminist Aesthetics in Feminist Theory, Hilde Hein explains feminism as, “The perspective that women bring to experience as subjects, a perspective whose existence has heretofore been ignored.” This idea is extremely important to my work because I question what a traditional painting is and how it can change to fit my own experiences of being a female in contemporary society.