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Favianna Rodriguez
born Oakland, California 1978
Climate Woke
2018
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Climate Woke is an ongoing campaign aimed at reorienting the climate change narrative to be more inclusive of low-income communities of color and indigenous and migrant communities. Like Rupert GarcĂa in the 1960s, Rodriguez capitalizes on the racialized dimensions of language. Using a lettering style that resembles urban graffiti, Rodriguez combines the African American slang term "woke" -- which means being aware of the need for social and racial justice -- with the word climate.
Museum purchase through the Julia D. Strong Endowment, 2020.38.1 |