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Guyana: Women are not Objects

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
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Posted 9 November 2012 13 years ago

[It is] a racist, sexist colonial throwback which draws on a long history of the sexualisation, commodification and thingification of the brown woman’s body.

Code Red is trying to raise awareness of the dangers of sexist advertising.

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