Exploring the Female Experience of Anger

 

 

My name is Emma Digerud-White, I’m an artist based in Cornwall. I am exploring the Female Experience of Anger, as part of an ongoing project, to encourage discussion around the ways women and girls are often not permitted to openly express their anger. I want to show angry faces and all their powerful glory without shame or apology. I’m asking you to send me an angry face photo which I will then turn into an anger portrait to add to the collection.

You can send an Angry Face Photo via DM on Instagram @EmmaDigerudWhite or use the hashtag #angryfacephoto and post it on your own instagram account. 

This is an ongoing project which is evolving as it goes along. Join me!

Please see my blog for more updates and follow me on Instagram @EmmaDigerudWhite

Anger Portraits:

Here is a selection of the Anger Portraits I have created so far…

and many more to come! 

Further Reading & Resources:

Here’s a list of all the things I’ve found useful in exploring this topic so far. There are many more which I’ve still to read! If you have any recommendations please do let me know via my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/emmadigerudwhite/

Books:

Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly

Good and Mad, Rebecca Traister

How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong, Elizabeth Day

Seven Necessary Sins For Women And Girls, Mona Eltahawy

Shrill, Lindy West

Ted Talks:

Soraya Chemaly: the power of women’s anger

Why we get mad - and why it’s healthy

Anger Is Your Ally: A Mindful Approach to Anger