Second Year, Estelle Atkin-Palmer, photographs a series of empowering images of women rugby players for the zine brief.
17th December 2019
My Zine started off as a project to promote femininity in sport through looking into ‘This girl can campaign’ but once being around the athletes and visiting their training sessions I gained insight to the back lash they receive as women rugby players.
They opened up to me about the stereotyping they receive off typically male rugby athletes and other heavily dominated male sports. These stereotypes included name calling and degrading sentences for example ‘women are weak’, ‘the games are slower’, they’re ‘fragile’ and that ‘women shouldn’t play a man’s game’.
After hearing these comments, I wanted to prove to the women that they are powerful and that my photographs would capture them in the hope that it would suppress these stereotypes surrounding them. And that is how I formed my project ‘Don’t Call Me Fragile’. I hope to carry this project on more thoroughly through my time at university and after university.
