Zainab Fasiki, the Moroccan designer who puts the patriarchy in her place

A few months ago, I discovered the Instagram account of Zainab Fasiki (@zainab_fasiki).And I fell in love with this young Moroccan and her beautiful drawings.

Free woman from a country that is less so, Zainab Fasiki denounces through his art the injustices that she faces.And for that, this 24 -year -old young Moroccan draws gigantic and naked women, Godzillas against patriarchy and rape culture.

Zainab Fasiki was born in 1994 in Fez, in northeast of Morocco.She is the only girl with a siblings of 5 boys.Quickly, she sees that her brothers have the right to more freedom than she.The young Zainab cannot go out on the pretext that the city is too dangerous.Quickly, she sees that this sexism occurs not only in the family circle, but also in public places or school.A wave of revolt takes hold of her.She then chose to take refuge in the drawing to express her anger and, to break the sexual image of the female body, she draws bodies of naked woman.The artist takes shape giant in the streets looking for the attackers to catch them.

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In Morocco, 63% of women say they have undergone street harassment according to the UN Women-Maghreb.In August 2017, a woman was filmed being raped on a bus in the middle of the day in Morocco.After its broadcast, many Moroccans were shocked.A wave of demonstration took place, denouncing the culture of rape.For the comic player "we can finish if we are united, and we teach the youngest to respect women," she explains in Brut.In an Arte video, the 24 -year -old woman confides in the difficulties of talking about these taboo subjects in her country: "When we want to talk about a complicated subject here, we are told" Ah no, Hshouma "" ".Nose foot, this Arabic word which means "shame" is also the name of its website and its exhibition which took place in November 2018 in Rabat.

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His Instagram account created in 2015 is now followed by nearly 30.000 people.She shares her works there, interviews, meetings and her projects.The women she draws and shares on the networks are naked, smoke shisha, they can be hairy or veiled, assume their bodies and are not afraid of it.They challenge the patriarchal society that surrounds them.Zainab represents them as real warriors ready to crush those who will block their way.His Instagram account is a way of exporting your art and ideas beyond borders and censorship.Thanks to that, she gets known little by little, is invited to various conferences and created partnerships abroad.And the young woman does not intend to stop there: "It is important to have courageous and feminist women in the Arab world because unfortunately, society is always united to fight free women, but never to save them"-It to the HuffPost Maghreb.His art is an ode to courage, women and freedom.

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