'We want the violence that we experience as women in this country to be like glitter: impossible to ignore.”
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in 2016, Galli Robertson admits that “the use of glitter … has taken on even more of a life since that paper was published.” Mexico City “is the first sort of protest-based use of glitter bombing that I've seen,” Galli Roberston said, noting that “the use of glitter bombing [in Mexico City] actually softens what otherwise would be seen as … very destructive and even violent protests.” The combination of the strikingly visual, force-free glitter bombing with “intensely radical protest tactics” is “really, really interesting and I think tactically very smart for these women,” Galli Robertson said.
Activists who’ve used glitter as protest are well aware of its cultural power and visual importance. Espinosa, quoted in Galli Robertson’s paper, recognized the “sensational” and “fabulous” nature of glitter from the get-go. The substance’s “symbolic power of femininity or queerness that makes it especially useful for women or for LGBT people,” Galli Robertson toldnoted glitter’s “extremely subversive” nature: “Glitter could be a representation of what we ‘have’ to be: pretty, sparkling.
Glitter also derives its power from its affordability and accessibility — you can easily conceal it in bags, pockets, or, in the case of Espinosa’s original glitter bombing of Gingrich, an old Cheez-it box. Unlike other shaming techniques — think
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