Today I would like to talk about “equality”. What does it mean? Who is responsible for equality?
I just came across the TED Talk of iO Tillett Wright. An artist that had the idea to photograph 2000 people around America, people who don’t know how to define their sexuality. So she asked them :
Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are?
Most people, it turns out, consider themselves to exist in the gray areas of sexuality, not 100% gay or straight. Which presents a real problem when it comes to discrimination. Human beings are not one- dimensional. Why should they be considered second class citizens? Why their rights should be different based on one element of their character?
So iO Tillett decided to take pictures of anyone who is not 100% straight, to show their eyes to the whole world. To show their humanity through the simplicity of a face.
They are exactly like us, but religion, society rules and politics don’t allow them to be totally free as we all are.
We are all responsible for equality.
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