EMIKO
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Laughing Woman

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The transgression of the woman laughing – as she laughs, she throws her head back, bares her teeth, cackles. A women possessed. She refuses to be quiet, demure, obedient. In her laughter she names the absurdity of the patriarchy- needing no words, just the sound of rejection. Unlike its opposite- despair, laughter leaves no trace. It is of the woman, leaving behind the memory of space and sound ruptured. Tears can be measured, collected, used as evidence of sincerity or its absence. Like other bodily secretions, tears exist outside. They can be claimed by another. Laughter, however, can only ever belong to the one laughing. It is the ultimate transgressive act. I laugh, and as I do i expunge grief, shame, loss.