@ashleyabaco: in honor of halloween (hallow’s eve) we have to get into how SPOOKY it gets when we get too familiar. the more familiar something becomes, the less we think about what it's communicating. Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is such an interesting example of what happens when an artist decides to challenge that. #BetyeSaar #ArtHistory #BrandingHistory #GraphicDesign #VisualCulture
I moved abroad and was shocked to see they still use the aunt jemima imagery outside the U.S. They only changed it in the U.S. and was completely performative
2026-10-30 23:35:17
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abbilynnburns :
I thought aunt Jemima was a real lady 😅
2026-11-02 12:05:21
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Essie Gong-Henny :
curious how you’d re-Saar up Aunt Jemima or Uncle Ben’s from your design perspective; i think i’d make her a herbalist, the flour a haunting voodoo powder instead, also doubt the full-smile, able-bodied aspect of the figure but depicting that in a way that would forward the white employer’s hand in her disability
2026-10-30 18:28:19
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AlphaCMT :
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is wiilld. Imagine using that imagery as new branding for a host of fake pancake products and putting it on the shelves and recording how people react?
2026-10-31 15:42:01
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Kayla Je’wel Lucas :
I remember learning about this piece in my art history class. This really inspired me to get PROVOCATIVE with my work.
2026-10-31 18:50:06
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K~B :
In the last 10 years of doing one of the most important things in my life and becoming woke (using the proper definition for the term, to be aware of, not the conservative labeled insult) I had to learn that a lot of things I grew up with as a normal part of my upbringing were racist and awful, you speaking on the mammy stereotype reminded me of when I first learned about that stereotype through videos examine the older Tom & Jerry cartoons I grew up watching on Boomerang. I just remember how eye opening that was to me and how ever since then it became so much easier to see when something that was a racist stereotype was present in media and to use the privilege of my skin to call it out instead of defending it in some feeble attempt to preserve an image from my childhood.
2026-11-01 20:40:56
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THE BARON VON BATS :
WTF
2026-10-31 17:25:54
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Amy picard :
💜💜💜
2026-10-30 17:46:48
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KonkonAmiya :
what the fuck is a pew pew? you can say gun, bless your heart
2026-10-31 02:24:03
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