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FIRE QUEEN Heather Lynn: An Artist Interview
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When you stand up against catcall culture you’re not only standing up for yourself, but everyone else that experiences it as well.
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The Project: “It’s called Fire Queen. I called it that because it was a catcall I received in New York City - I was walking down the street, doing my own thing, appreciating the city, and this guy across the street starts screaming at me, “Hey you Fire Queen, come over here I want to talk to you Fire Queen” and it was really offputting, because I was just having a nice time, and I’d been catcalled a few times in NYC but this time it was really adamant and getting my attention, but honestly took me aback because it was so creative, it felt like he actually thought about it for a second and, obviously, I didnt appreciate the catcall but like, I appreciate your creativity, in yelling at me that’s great. But you know, he called me Fire Queen and I was just holding my head a little higher than before, and it just stayed in my head - I told all my friends that story a few times, and they were like, “wow that’s shitty but that’s a creative catcall”. So that happened about two years ago and it’s been brewing in my head ever since.”
Check out the full interview on the Citizen Vintage Blog -
What are your thoughts on the representation of red-heads in the media ? I feel like it gets really trendy, and that can be odd growing up because you’re treated like a “weird kid” but then you grow into a young adult and it becomes what people think is a super attractive trait. Society tends to fetishize it. People used to say that I was “different” or “weird”, and they couldn’t fit me into a box of their ideal beauty standards. And do you think this project comes from a place of empowerment ? Yeah ! It comes from a place of empowerment its going to be based off of the idea of empowering people who have been catcalled before but also empowering red-heads because, you know, I’m a red-head, that’s what I know that’s the life I live. I’ve been treated really weirdly in my life because of it. So I wanted to focus on red-heads but also the idea of empowerment and cat-calling culture, which is why it’s called Fire Queen, and I’m going to have a calendar in the style of the Firefighter calendars - Mr. November style, but it’s all going to be awesome Fire Queens; awesome red-heads in history that we just didn’t really learn about, or maybe we heard about but didn’t really learn that much about them. One of them being Jeanne d’Arc. She was a huge feminist fighter with flaming red hair and thats the cool thing about red hair, it’s not just a trait that’s labelled as Irish, it started from a gene in Africa and made its way over to Europe, so there’s a lot of people of all different races who have red hair and we don’t talk about that ever as well. I feel like when you think of red-heads you think of this super pale person with green eyes, Irish and big red hair.
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