Aniela Brianne Robinson

This work has orbited how the correlation between femininity and vulnerability is historically embedded in the fundamentals of human society; there is a primal construct rooted in the foundation of social politics that deems women solely as objects of male enticement. The possession and domination of women is ingrained in both historical and modern civilisation. This in turn has resulted in a multitude of ramifications for women to suffer; the most consequential being sexual violence. Sexual violence is the repercussion of a society domineered by male expectation; feminine beauty standards are constructed by men to appease the male gaze; this thereby oppresses women and generates the presupposition that femininity cannot be mutually exclusive to male conjecture surrounding aesthetics. Despite violence against women existing as a historical act of normative social behaviour, society remains stagnant on the issue; this is what the body of work explores.

In March 2021, statistics were published that 97% of women had been sexually harassed during their lifetime, however, only 1.4% of rape cases had been prosecuted. This work was generated in response to the 95.6% of women that have been ignored by the justice system; it attempts to marry authentic experience with public confrontation to verbalise the desperate requirement for intervention. Femininity has for too long been utilised as an excuse for mistreatment; the body of work produced is a declaration of truths, a unified plea to reconstruct failed jurisdiction.