OUR LAUGHTER KICKS PATRIARCHY IN THE ASS
or
KIÇIMIZLA GÜLERİZ ATAERKİNİZE
A Graphic & Sound Collage by Özlem Sarıyıldız
2022
Once, a mediocre man tactlessly declared that it was inappropriate for women to laugh out loud in public. Other mediocre allies of this mediocre man nodded as he spoke. And this happened a centillion times in a centillion of places.
I am really bored!!!
This small collage of AI-generated images is a tiny slice of the sum of all the laughter that has given a voice or is likely to give a voice, from all ages, from all over the world.
One laughter knows all the laughter that has happened, is happening or is to happen sooner or later. Our laughter will not apologize to you. Our laughter will not close its mouth in fear of your shameless and blasphemous words accusing and condemning them.
A burst of full-throated laughter, a peal of millions of full-throated laughter connecting with each other independent of eras and geographies, will smash your sick and qualmish and empty talks. Their resonating voices will kick the ass of your redundant patriarchy.
Now just shut up!!!