Cinderella Is Pissed 2011

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Africa Is A Country wrote about the series here: http://africasacountry.com/2013/04/17/cinderella-is-pissed/ – “Blignaut transforms “life size” into a death-sized frame and syntax that somehow, also, maybe, offers a dark glimmer of hope. Cinderella is pissed. She’s pissed at the sexual violence, she’s pissed at violence against women and girls, she’s pissed at the trivialization, she’s pissed at the Cinderella-fication and the Rainbow-ification of people’s struggles for a decent and joyful life.”

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This series was discussed in a Cape Times interview ‘Reframing the victim as the victor’  http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/reframing-the-victim-as-the-victor-1.1512508#.UYpVOismkoB – “What’s most remarkable, however, is that Blignaut has used her art to transcend her own “victimhood” – of having a gun pointed at her – and, in so doing, she has reclaimed her sense of self, her strength. Which should inspire every South African, women in particular, to not only protest the violence, but to also transform it into personal power.”