Appropriation As a Rhetorical Strategy

Rape Culture, as I have discussed in previous blogs, is a social activism series that I created combining images and texts.  Including in the series were appropriations of an advertisement, a rape joke, and a porn still.  Appropriative reproach is a useful way to persuade an audience to see beyond the original "work" into a more thorough understanding of the social implications that it makes.

I decided quite some years ago that my expression of communication via images and text are mostly social activism, as I have a passion to spreading awareness and enlightening issues that are repressive towards individuals: rape, violence, child abuse, etc.  I feel that this is my outlet and way to help bring people together by finding avenues to breaking down dichotomies and systems that divide each other.