Second is the first to lose | karensaundersart

Hi, Welcome to Second is the First to Lose

Second Is the First to Lose, explores stereotypes and biases of gender,

especially the second place treatment of woman.

Housed in a sports bar "Second Place" ceramics trophy take a tongue and cheek look at how society see the 51%.This exhibit is part of the the 2023 National Council on

Education of Ceramic Art Conference.

To buy a trophy, hit the email button for my Venmo address. Trophy titles listed in images below.

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Fallen Trophies Large

Fallen trophy form the weight of the issue they carry.

Titles: Privilege corrupts

Unattainable Beauty Standards

Feminine beauty ideals

Pay gap, Price of being a woman

Fallen Trophy with 3 engraved plates

Fallen Trophy from weighty society issues.

Patriarchal society
Misogyny
Systemic Bias

Fallen Trophies small.

Fallen trophies have fallen to the weight of the society's stereotypes.

Call and Response Trophies

These upside down trophy's take on the form of woman. The woman calls out in response to what society is saying.

Titles:
Calm yourself / been nice too long

Pink tax /where’s my 21%

You run like a girl/Bring home the trophy

It was a joke/ No, it’s sexist

Equal is not equitable/ wait six times as long to pee??

Woman belong in all places where decisions are made/still only 31 %

The Supreme Court/ hey, you took away my rights

Call them out/ can’t keep me silent

Respect my Existence or Expect my Resistance Trophy

Respect my Existence or Expect my Resistance

Bans Off Our Bodies

If you can’t trust me with choice, how can you trust me with child

Not Every Ejaculation Needs A Last Name

Trophies large

Large Trophies

Titles:

Gender roles hurt us all

Challenge the bias!

We Should All Be Feminists

Call it out Trophies

Woman Trophies calling out stereotypes and bias.

Titles:
Lookout I vote!!!!

I see you, I believe you/ call it out

Not your property

Not an object

Don’t assume I cook

If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention

Can’t believe I still have to put up with this f***ing sh**

Our value does not come from a clean house… F***the patriarchy

Tiny but Mighty Trophies

Trophies to second Place

Each of these trophies are titled to a second place reference like you get them next time.