“Propaganda 1: Respect Us” (Digital Illustration, 2020)
“Propaganda 2: Arouse Us” (Digital Illustration, 2020)
“Propaganda 3: Placate Us” (Digital Illustration, 2020)
Propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Throughout history, government agencies have used propaganda to push specific agendas…this manipulation and dissemination of the truth is still very much in use today.
What happens when we begin to internalize these biases as truths? What happens when then narratives we are fed becomes the stories we believe and pass on? What happens when “Us” is not “we the people”, but those who control the masses? True power is the ability to tell the story you want others to believe. The man who sent this message believed his narrative that women should respect the men is the only true version of the story. I hope this series will empower some of you to disrupt the narrative, in some small way, so that other stories may be heard.