In the article, Brouwer–The Precarious Politics of Self-Stigmatization, the idea of self-stigmatization is viewed as “the willful marking of oneself as ‘tainted'”. When thinking about this concept, one of my favorite female artists, Frida Kahlo, stuck out to me when thinking about how self-stigma is often expressed. In her painting, Two Frida’s (1939), Frida Kahlo used her art to express her understanding of the social stigma of divorce in her culture, mixed with the way that made her feel. Being a divorced woman, constantly pushing the boundaries of what it meant to be considered beautiful and feminine, Kahlo expressed her feelings of loneliness and sadness. Her art was startling and often set her apart from the social norms showing the world she was “tainted”.
Thinking Rhetorically at GCSU 