Women X Strada: the campaign to tell women to always feel free

AND the society still today a tell women what to be and how to feel. A strongly patriarchal society, which in doing so claims to dictate rules and times. We should all be opposed and to encourage everyone to live as they see fit, the professionals of Women X Road they launched the photographic campaign Free to be.

Free to be photographic campaign

Free to be curious, sexy, strong, sensitive. Also free to flirt and then change your mind at the last moment.

These are the keywords chosen for the project and written on parts of the female body immortalized in black and white shots where entire figures do not appear, but only portions of skin without identity.

“These terms describe gods for us elements important that represent the female figure and that society sometimes proposes us as discrediters», Explains the president of Women X RoadLaura. The photos are taken on thermal paper and this basically makes them permanent. An obviously not random choice. “We decided to use this photographic method to remember how violence arrives immediately and it is precisely this immediacy that paralyzes us.”

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A violence very often made up of words that mortify, pigeonhole into schemes created by others, knock out and prevent any reaction. A violence, concealed under the non-use of physical force, but for this no less powerful if it is true that, according to many polls, in Italy, one in two women has been harassed. Numbers in all probability downwards, given that the predominant feeling when this happens is such a shame as to prevent many from telling each other.

“In addition to the statistics, we don’t know how many of them felt lonely, abandoned, dirty, humiliated, even guilty: we don’t know, but we can imagine it”, he continues Laura.

What is Donne X strada

Precisely from the awareness of how harassment can come at any time and everywhere, from the bus, to work, to the supermarket, to the park or in a thousand other places, a group of professionals has created the association Women X Road, born mainly for keep company with direct Instagram to girls who do not feel safe returning home alone.

A sort of phone call to a friend but social, which virtually involves an increasingly active community, which can make you feel a little more serene at every step, and discourage some bad guys.

«This activity takes up a lot of time because the requests are more and more, at all hours. Often the girls who travel alone on deserted stretches of road and return home in the evening independently they are told that they are courageous, which obviously is never said to a man. “

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