When thinking of the interconnectedness of social movements and art-making practices, the most blatant example that does to mind is Alice Bag’s white justice music and video, because dealing with political oppression can be such a difficult experience art becomes an important tool of expressing and a potential point of connection for people to acknowledge a shared reality within a political context such as the police brutality that Bag’s video was inspired by and speaks against. I also think another component of the interconnectedness between art and social movements lies in the healing nature of artistic expression and the in the ways that finding oneself in community and standing together rather than alone can also be an empowering and healing practice.
This is referenced in Blackwell’s Chicana Power, when students began to “name how the racial and economic oppressions and educational inequality had gendered and sexual dimensions that influenced their lives as Chicanas (44).” In this collective naming of a shared experience students felt more empowered to formally organize and run the necessary “consciousness-raising and solidarity-building sessions for Chicanas (44)” while also fighting for respect within the Chicanx political movements of the time.
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