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| "half-hyshun" |
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| "paper" |
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| "sissy" |
The following was part 2 of my research, but this was brewing in my head for a while. Words are often used to beat down and abuse persons just because. And in the Bahamas, the labels used to describe those who are different are used by everyone in a degrading manner- by school children, 'boys' on the block, women in the office. Hell, even our politicians throw these harmful words around and everyone laughs because it's considered okay. The people who they are hurting with these words are part of an immoral, deviant minority. Hurting them doesn't matter.
So it was important for me to give the Flagettes that as their source of conflict- both with and without the mask. I decided to take my experiment a step further and covertly search for the phrases or words that were used to target people like them. I then chose to weave the single word or phrase over and over again into the image of the Bahamian flag- because at the bottom line, the girls- like many others who are labelled like them- are still Bahamian. A fact that is sometimes forgotten by many.
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