Launching the 2023 SocAnth Art Contest
As part of the Department’s ongoing anti-racism, decolonization, and Indigenization efforts, the Decolonization and Anti-Racism Committee is looking for some inspiring art to display on our walls and website.
For the 2023 SocAnth Art Contest, we are calling all the creative types among you – our faculty, staff, instructors, students, and alumni – to submit a piece of art that you have made (e.g., a painting, a photo, collage, etc.) which you would like to see on our Department’s wall and website on the theme of anti-racism, decolonization, or Indigenization.
How to submit: Take a picture of the piece of art which you created and email it from your Carleton email account, along with your name and a brief blurb (2-5 sentences or so) about your art, as well as a completed Consent to Publish Information form to soc-anthro@carleton.ca by 11:59 p.m. (EST) on Friday, March 3rd, 2023.
There are cash prizes for the top three entries ($125 each). All three top entries will be displayed in a post on our website and social media. The first prize entry will be displayed in the Department for a year.
Please reach out to soc-anthro@carleton.ca with any questions about the contest.
Fat bodies exist; they are natural and beautiful. Thin supremacy is rooted in racism and sexism, designed to control women and members of the BIPOC community. Hidden in medicine, assumed (but not proven) that thin is healthy, the colonization of body size continues. Anti-fat behaviour further burdens, stigmatizes, and harms people already
suffering at the hands of discrimination. Let’s learn to love that bodies come in all shapes and sizes, and that fat bodies are amazing.