WE NEED YOU!
Globally, over 380 million women are in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day.
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The crisis in Ukraine has had a profound affect on women's food security and nutrition.
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In 2022 the number of food insecure women assisted by the World Food Programme has nearly DOUBLED.
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1.2 billion women reproductive age live where safe access to abortion is restricted.
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Globally, 1 in 10 women 15-49 were subjected to sexual/physical violence by an intimate partner in 2021.
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Globally, over 380 million women are in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day. // The crisis in Ukraine has had a profound affect on women's food security and nutrition. // In 2022 the number of food insecure women assisted by the World Food Programme has nearly DOUBLED. // 1.2 billion women reproductive age live where safe access to abortion is restricted. // Globally, 1 in 10 women 15-49 were subjected to sexual/physical violence by an intimate partner in 2021. //
Over 1000 community members took part in taking action with RightNOW to support Women's equality worldwide.
RightNOW was community photo-collage installation based
on how women are fighting to be wholly represented in global societies.
Led by Kirsty Little & Becky McFall: Made possible by the community.
Overview of the seven windows at 5500 Wisconsin Ave.
DETAILS
Where? 5510 Wisconsin Ave Chevy Chase MD 20185 & online.
When? From 20 Jan to 17 March 2023
What? Community members helped raise awareness of Women's rights being abused worldwide. Read more of the worldwide violations here at Amnesty International
What happened at RightNow?
We wanted to create action to raise awareness for change and support Women’s Rights worldwide.
The goal was to harness the political power of all genders to create transformative social change around the issues of women’s equality. Such rights being exploited are Women’s Suffrage, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Freedom of Movement, Gender Inequality, Sexual Violence and Harassment, Workplace Discrimination, the list goes on...currently the school girls being gassed in Iran and the school girls being denyed education in Afganistan are priority.
We asked you be a part of an art installation of public art by simply sending us a photo of you. We updated the full photos in the windows 17 times throughout the exhibition.
We used half of your photo with another persons — to symbolise that women are not fully represented in society and not in control of their bodies.
As more of you joined in, the live window and online display filled up with a mass of 1000 supporters of Women’s Rights.
Thank you for doing your bit to support us — for our mothers, our daughters, and our sisters.
More support is needed - please consider donating to any of these womens organisations: malala.org, equalitynow.org, or Black girls code
Check out our press reviews in The Washinton Post here RightNOW press and here RightNOW press 2
Part of the windows for Iran group NSGIRAN - We attended a protest rally in DC to support Iranian girls being gassed in school in 2023.
“‘’Thank you, thank you so much for doing this, your support for our girls is so important, we feel heard in the US’’ ”
We spent time doing outreach, educating and gathering images at:
Joes movement Emporium - Mount Rainier.
Hood College - Frederick.
Montgomery College - MD.
NSGIran Rally - DC.
Otis St Art Project - Mount Rainer.
Gallery B - Bethesda MD.
Bread Furst- DC.
Farmers Market - Chevy Chase MD.
Martin Luther King Library - DC.
Community Forklift - PG.
Green Acres School - MD.
Glen Echo - MD
American University - DC
First Friday - DC
Athenauem Gallery - Alexandria MD.
About the RightNOW Project
The RightNOW project appeared in the seven large former retail windows at 5510 Wisconsin Ave, Maryland.
RightNOW window with the first community members images. Jan 2023
This year, women’s rights in the United States were eliminated and dismantled. The air went out of the room for millions of women. With this assault, we became more acutely aware of inequality plights facing women around the world, haunted almost daily by fresh new abominations. Without doubt, this is a pivotal moment in Herstory.
Today, women do not experience respect and equality; they aren’t even in control of their own bodies. Historically women used their bodies to peacefully demand equal rights. They have linked arms, marched, chained themselves to buildings, and even taped over their mouths. In 1913, the National Women’s Party started collecting photographs of suffragettes who supported equal voting rights.
We believe that today, images of women using their bodies, committed to equality, can enable change. We support women’s equality in society worldwide.
Show your support with RightNOW Merchandise
Show your support and raise awareness for global women's rights issues.
ALL PROCEEDS OF SALES will go directly to Equality Now, whose mission statement is: At Equality Now, we use a unique combination of legal advocacy, regional partnership-building, and community mobilization to realize our vision of a more just and equal world for women and girls.
More info at https://www.equalitynow.org/
About the Organizers
Kirsty Little has led previous community large scale installations at The Katzen gallery - American University/ Visarts/ Red Dirt studio/ Harmony Hall. Her work is on permanent display at Tenleytown Library and PG county swim center. Contact Kirsty Little for more info.
Becky McFall is a DC Artist and former Art Teacher. She specializes in Portraiture, Mixed Media, Mobiles, and Biology-Inspired Art. She was the art director for her window in WOW2 and was featured with two pieces highlighting the impacts of climate change on ocean life, and its devastation to human homes due to fire and polar ice melt. www.artunfiltered.com
