pushingpink opens thursday in seattle

I’m big on chang­ing things up.

And in ad­di­tion from mov­ing with my wife to nü digs this month – and go­ing to­tal­ly BAUHAUS MOD with a bet­ter stu­dio for RADíO FLoMM and oth­er FLOM­M­MA­BLE vi­su­ally­stick­y­things – we’ve been look­ing at A LOT OF NÜ ART LATE­LY re­al­iz­ing WE STILL DON’T HAVE ENOUGH WALLS FOR EVERYTHING.

We have a lot of nooks tho. And a long hallway.

SO if chang­ing things up where you live (and pro­l­ly still work) is also in or­der, Ju­lian Peña Gallery has PUSH­INGPINK open­ing this week.

“In every in­dus­try, prod­ucts and ser­vices mar­ket­ed specif­i­cal­ly to women are more like­ly to cost more than those mar­ket­ed to men. This gen­der-based price dis­crim­i­na­tion is of­ten re­ferred to as the ‘Pink Tax.’ Re­gard­less of a person’s gen­der iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, a con­sumer who wish­es to pur­chase prod­ucts mar­ket­ed to women will en­counter this ‘tax.’ For wom­xn, es­pe­cial­ly wom­xn of col­or, this is par­tic­u­lar­ly harm­ful due sys­temic racism in ad­di­tion to the gen­der-based wage gap.

“For peo­ple who men­stru­ate, there is the ad­di­tion­al tam­pon tax – a sales tax that is on men­stru­al hy­giene prod­ucts. These prod­ucts are a ba­sic ne­ces­si­ty for about half of the pop­u­la­tion, and the tax dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly af­fects only men­stru­at­ing peo­ple, mak­ing it a form of sex-based dis­crim­i­na­tion. As of April 2020, Wash­ing­ton State joined 19 oth­er states mak­ing these prod­ucts tax ex­empt. PUSH­INGPINK at­tempts to re­flect the fi­nan­cial and psy­cho­log­i­cal tax­es ex­pe­ri­enced by those af­fect­ed by the pink and/or tam­pon tax, as well as to chal­lenge society’s nor­mal­ized con­cepts of gender.”
—ST Rivera, cu­ra­tor of PUSH­INGPINK
 

Con­tribut­ing artists include
@themonarq
@angel8or
@jaabartt
@jo.cosme
@rebeldogstudio
@shirenesoleimanartist
@jenifalldine
@amyameliamy

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, “a por­tion of the sales from this show go to Seat­tle T2P2. They dis­trib­ute men­stru­al prod­ucts to peo­ple ex­pe­ri­enc­ing homelessness.”

MOR info here.

AND

stream JT’s cu­rat­ed playlist for the show:

PUSH­INGPINK runs thru 26 March 2021. 

Go get some art. Those walls need to change.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Poster art by @jo.cosme; top im­age An Ac­count of How Sweet it Could Be (de­tail) by @themonarq 🔥

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