Quiet Piggy: We Cannot Be Silenced
Amended Archives, Olivia Rachel Austin, Carrie Bennett, Brooke Elizabeth, H. Buchholz, Patricia Brown, Laurie Buman, Sarah Chavez, Heather Crawford, Julianna Dail, Loren Dann, Whitney Dirks, Susanna Eisenman, Erin Rae, Jamie Frontiera, Ellie Goodliffe, Set Gozo, S. Grant, Sandra Guze, Jenn Book Haselswerdt, S Kessler Kaminski, Maegan Kirschner, Victoria Kowalczyk, Kim Laurel, Gayla Lemke, Maiyan Linane, Clarissa Martinez, Jen McNulty, Melisa of MWY Pottery, Lori Moretti, Irene Nelson, Kathleen Cecilia Nesbitt, Julia Niepert, Carolyn Olson, Gali Orlen, Suzanne Papiewski, Sylvia Phillips, Jill Sarver Rossi, Amy L Ruddy, Fran Sampson, Nicole Schulman, Virginia Shepley, Sitaaj, Sharon Stanczak, Wendy L Starn, Rebecca C. Steiner, Linda Storm, Kim Stuart, Sahar Tarighi, Jennifer Taylor, Scotti Taylor, Cheryl A. Thomas, Rhonda Urdang, Gail M. Willert, Madeline Witek, Denise Yaghmourian, Isabel Zeng, Jane Zich
Woman Made Gallery
1332 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Wed-Sun 12pm-5pm CST
Admission
Free Admission
Virtual exhibition
About
Language has long been wielded as a weapon — misogynistic terms, often used by men, become instruments of control and erasure, with words used to diminish, demean, and silence women. Quiet Piggy: We Cannot Be Silenced is about the enduring power of art to confront disparaging language and reclaim agency. The exhibition confronts the language of degradation head-on. The title Quiet Piggy is deliberately provocative: a derogatory term crudely tethered to negative connotations about the female body, horrifyingly used to shame, silence, and marginalize. By reframing and challenging this insult, the exhibition subverts the term into a narrative of resistance. Here, the term becomes a rally cry for resilience. Voices are not hushed but amplified. To remain silent in the face of such language is complicity; to speak and to defend is defiance. This exhibition insists that women's voices, bodies, and truths cannot be reduced, censored, or erased.