Dear Lactnetters,

I am at a teacher's conference (Maryland Artist/Teacher Institute) this week
on integrating the arts into education.  It is a wonderfully powerful
workshop incorporating dance, poetry, visual arts, puppetry, drama and
music.  We have the most amazing artists working with us and teaching us.
Anyway...one of the artists, Maria Barbosa, had an exhibit in the spring at
the offices of DSHS...Tommy Thompson's domain.  The exhibit was detailed
embroidery panels of body parts, the brain, a single cell, the heart, a
uterus, etc.  The work was put up on a Friday when Secretary Thompson was
out of the office.  On Monday, when he returned to the office, Maria was
called and told to remove the entire exhibit.  When she got there, the panel
with the uterus had been removed (and then quickly rehung when she got
there).

I am struck by the comparison of the issues at hand...we can't talk about or
see breasts and their intended function.  Uteri are forbidden as well.  I
see a bigger issue here than just the Ad Campaign.

Kathy
IBCLC and Special Education teacher
St. Mary's County, MD

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