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  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2014, gelatin silver print, 16 1/8 × 20".

    Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2014, gelatin silver print, 16 1/8 × 20".

    Joanna Piotrowska

    Zachęta National Gallery of Art

    It is commonly said that every protest needs a face. A face gives a protest not only an identity, but also credibility and public trust. However, not every face can be the face of every strike, every act of civil disobedience, or every resistance movement. When a specific aspect of the system is criticized, the act of resistance is particularly pronounced. “Good girls don’t protest,” repeat mothers and grandmothers. Good girls don’t curse, shout, get angry. And yet they do: Once again this past fall, Polish women took to the streets to decry new governmental restrictions on their reproductive

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