Stop Telling Women To Smile, By Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Women for centuries have been flighting for their fundamental rights, and independence from patriarchal society and polices. Three social feminist movements: Tatyana Fazlaizadeh’s street art fighting against street harassment “Stop Telling Women To Smile”;The Fed Up Honey’s undoing stereotypes of ethnic minority women residing in the low economic side of the Lower East Side; and lastly the Zero Tolerance Policy from Edinburgh display feminist theories of Marxist, Socialist, Radical and Black feminism. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is the artist behind the revolutionary street art display “Stop Telling Women To Smile”. This was created in response to the harassment women experience on the streets daily (Connor, p.2). Street harassing or catcalling
and it was there she began her quest to end street harassment in 2012 (p.8); because of her own personal experiences. She “waged an artistic war” to expose and demoralize this form of social and sexual harassment for women (p.4). Stop Telling Women To Smile (STWTS) brought attention to society that is usually overlooked everyday; how street based harassment negatively affects women. Frazlaizadeh’s artwork, emphasis upon how women’s bodies are treated as communal possessions for utilization. Her unorthodox and courageous art work gives back women’s voices they lost due to the patriarchal abuse they endure in the public hemisphere. Street harassment is not a familiar term to most people, including Frazlaizadeh before she began STWTS. She learned this term through organizations who raise awareness about and combat street harassment such as, Hollaback! & streetharassment.org. Tatyana whom is a woman of colour, experienced street harassment growing in a Africa-American populated neighbourhood; and her harasses were men of colour (p.6). Statistics indicate that in the United States of America in the year 2014 out of the 2,000 people surveyed; 65% females have experienced street harassment. 25% of men- majority of these males belong to the LGBTQ community have experienced harassment on
They too focus on stereotypes of young women whom are of colour (Allen et al, 2004). These stereotypes of these women portray them as a “burden to society” and “likely to become teen moms”. Their goal is to de-stigmatize these women of ethnic minorities of being apathetic, and dependent upon government money to get by. There is an ongoing battle of these women facing terrorism along with stereotypes (Cahill, p.206). The Fed Up Honeys began as a study in the summer of 2002 in the lower Eastside inhabitation of New York City. The study had six young women as the participants, all between the ages of 16 and 22. There six ladies symbolize the neighbourhood demography because they all belong to ethic minority groups of either African-American, Chinese, Latin-black, and Puerto Rican (p.205). The research was to address two problems that relates to stereotypes of these urban women of colour. The first concern is, what is the association with lack of capital such as schooling in the area in which these young women live in. As well as, what are the outcome of these young ladies wellbeing from stereotyping. The second issue is, how does stigmatization alter and strengthen the way they view themselves. This is important because there is a mass misconception of the urban area they reside in. These stereotypes include it to be “loud, violent, dark, ghetto”. The purpose of this project to make