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I think there can actually be a connection made between how America paradoxically has both low voter turnout while also enormous reverence and veneration for the act of voting in the civic culture and the rabid reaction people have towards people who make conscious decisions to abstain from voting. “Non-voter” is the default mode so moving from that towards being a voter is seen as an upward trajectory in terms of virtue so if someone were to consciously refuse to vote (or refuse to vote for the “live” candidates/parties at the very least) this is a kind of civic sacrelige in a sense sorta like its one thing if someone doesnt vote bc they are politically ignorant but if they are not politically ignorant and still abstain then its because theyre like evil or something.

Like I think that partially explains the attitude behind all those articles that are like “If you refuse to vote its because you are exercising white and/or male privilege” operate under the liberal idpol idealogy that ties social categories of “privilege” to personal morality and by viewing voting abstention as a immoral act the authors work under the implicit assumption that it can only be done by someone they consider “privileged”

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by Fatoumata Diabaté

image credit: Sienna Pinderhughes, “They Are A Reflection Of You”, 2014

“If We Came From Nowhere Here, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There?” is a photography and video-based exhibit exploring ideas of temporality, ﬂux, and Afrofuturism as explored by self-identified women of Black/African descent. This showing, curated by Allison McDaniel, is an extension of the first showing in 2014 in Washington, DC.

Exhibition will feature works by 16 artists across the United States and internationally: Charmaine Nicole Bee and her partner and collaborator Ivan Forde, Sienna Pinderhughes, Lachell Workman, Nakeya Brown, Lee Bullitt, Sonia Louise Davis, Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Kali-Ma Nazarene, Danielle Deadwyler, Atong Atem, Sondra Perry, Bree Gant, Naima Green, Dhool Hassan, Jen Everett, and Janna Ireland.

The exhibit will be on view at Artworks until May 7, 2016 | EVENT PAGE

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