Tonight, Jeff, our friend Cynthia, and I went to the opening reception at MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Westport.
I'm on the MOCA mailing list and learned about the reception yesterday. I like to go to opening receptions. It sounded like an exhibit I want to see about women's rights advocates. And, I have to admit, complimentary cocktails were another draw. (Drinks are expensive at MOCA: beer for $10, cocktails for $14.)
The first room displayed Maya Angelou's poem Caged Bird, along with books written by or about the subjects of the exhibit.
The exhibit was powerful, focusing on individual survivors: child marriage, honor-based violence, Talibanization (no education for girls) female genital mutilation, kidnapping as a child soldier, transphobia, sex trafficking, and domestic violence. All of the survivors depicted escaped their abusers and became activists. After seeing the exhibits which included a brief description of the trauma suffered by each woman, we watched a video with all of the women describing their ordeals.
After that we did another loop around the room to take a second look at the exhibits.
Powerful and thought provoking.
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