The New Southern Woman’s Creed-2

TW: Utilization of sensitive language

Process Notes: For this week’s writing, I was inspired, in part, by the form of Marinetti’s “The Futurist Manifesto.” I wanted to begin with this sort-of repetitive preface to the actual content of the work in order to mirror the structure of many similar gatherings that I have witnessed, such as Cotillion classes or church meetings. We’ve generally moved away from the Southern Belle era by this point, so I liked the idea of trying to recreate an identity. I also wanted to play around with slight, momentary shifts in tone, especially from point to point in the list section in order to play up the complexity of the demographic. I thought that putting it in a two-column format and including the flower images would make it more poster- or handout-like.