"But the bag is your body" 2017

​The title of this work is “But the Bag is Your Body” and is taken from Sara Ahmed’s book Living A Feminist Life (2017). I have borrowed this concept from Ahmed, who likens the body of a womxn to a bag. She makes this comparison when discussing the effect of accumulative systemic violence on the body of womxn. She says that much like a bag that gets heavier and heavier as you add objects to it, so too does the body of womxn, get heavier and heavier as the weight of emotions wear you down and you begin to feel like you’re dragging your body around. She speaks about emotions as objects, and how these objects or emotions “shape the very surfaces of bodies.”