"seeking Justice" Live Radio Talk

Susan Harbage Page, Artist & Associate Professor of Women & Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came to discuss her latest art exhibit - Borderlands: Evidence from the Rio Grande. The exhibit includes both photographs of objects from the U.S. border at the Rio Grande and many objects themselves. Susan stated that she first began observing these personal objects - discarded along the border in the 1990's and began work to photograph and collect these objects in 2007.   She discussed her inspiration for collecting these items as the powerful feelings they evoke from the individuals who had to leave these objects behind while trying to cross the southern U.S. border. She detailed how items such as women's bras left a trail that likely indicated assault and rape, telling stories to us that are not being given justice for the pain and suffering being experienced. Susan presented that women and children are being disproportionately affected at the border, and because of their l