
"Outgrow the Patriarchy" is a powerful collage that challenges traditional gender roles and societal expectations of the female body. Against a nearly cloudless sky between the sun and a desert dune, a woman raises her right arm with visible armpit hair. The image is kept in a friendly and warm tone. The bold text "Outgrow the Patriarchy" serves as a commentary that invites viewers to reflect on the ways in which patriarchal attitudes and structures indirectly dictate that people, and especially women, conform to a certain ideal of beauty. Breaking out of this pattern by letting hair grow seems to be a simple and unexciting means. The hair serves here as a symbol of feminist resistance and at the same time as a simple, natural part of one's own body.