Museum of Resistance and Resilience

Social Nonconformity in Fashion Through the Years (Annie, Araceli, and Quan)

Words are often utilized as the primary instigators of resistance, but we tend to overlook the social power of bodily self-expression. A cursory glance throughout the years can easily confirm one concept: the way people express resistance through fashion, in response to stigma and stagnation, has been timeless. Beginning from the late 1920s to and ending around the culmination of the twentieth century, this exhibition highlights six key events of resistance against the "dominator culture" through fashion nonconformity. Through this exhibit, it is evident that resistance to a restricting culture is the practice of self-love. As hooks says in All About Love: New Horizons, “Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else” (67).

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