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Remember the time your Instagram feed was flooded with posts about #100HappyDays or some random #100Days challenges? Everyone wanted to share pictures of their perfect lives, their pets, holidays, and so on. But now there’s someone who’s taken up yet another #100Days challenge, only her’s is far more intriguing and, if I might add, perfectly imperfect for the millennials!
Meet @wallflowergirlsays, an artist who is tired of being privy to the unreal lives of millennials on social media. Therefore, she has embarked upon her very own #100DaysOfDirtyLaundry project on Instagram, which aims to bring out millennials’ problems that are taboo, uncomfortable, cringe-worthy and will make ‘char log’ judge you.
Through her bold and beautiful illustrations, this artist wants to disrobe the ugly truths that lace everyday lives of millennials and leave them out in the open for everyone to ponder and discuss.
“I hope to cover everything unholy, uncomfortable, cringe-worthy – be it complicated love, indefinable sexuality, masturbation, periods, over-gloried travel, manic materialism, alcohol binges, smelly farts, burps, ugly scars, anything & everything I am guilty about, ashamed to share in public.”
Well, then! Full swing ahead with #100DaysOfDirtyLaundry!
As of last week, @wallflowergirlsays is on Day #73 of her challenge and pretty much killing it, not just with her illustrations but with the topics she chooses to discuss through them.
Her posts often include a rather detailed rant about the topic that is an absolute must read for millennials! She doesn’t try to get too preachy or idealistic, keeps her tone conversational and tells it like it is! Have a looksie?
1. She chose to begin her #100DaysOfDirtyLaundry challenge with something rather explosive, literally. Farts! She spoke about how she loves loud, smelly farts and cannot lie!
Read her caption and you’ll know why!
2. Scarred or scared? Every woman who has had to live with her scars and eventually grow to accept them will relate to this one.
Love thy scars ought to be a legit beauty commandment!
3. Remember when you thought every touch was innocent and pure? And then adult life happened and you grew wary of every touch, even the familiar ones. The artist mourns the loss of innocent touch.
4. It is a sad truth isn’t it? We’ve internalised misogyny so much that a woman’s biggest enemy is, in fact, a woman. Patriarchy aside, let’s just treat each other right first, ladies?
5. From Joey’s man-purse to Brienne of Tarth’s manliness, what is with this gender-specific accessories and who makes these rules anyway? Can we please be whoever we want to be, irrespective of our genders?
6. Guilty! I’ve probably done all of the “Ewww gross!” things on the list mentioned in the caption. Except maybe #2 and #13! What about you?
7. “The problem is how society sees men as whole, women as only a sum of their ‘parts’.” Hey society, my boobs are not a piece of meat!
8. Weighing in on riding the Crimson Flow, the PMSing, the embarrassed whispers when seeking a sanitary napkin from a female colleague, and the repercussions of period leaves. More drama then GoT‘s Red Wedding!
9. “What is it about women wanting to take control of their sexual desires that scares us as a society, making us fear them, admonish them or worse brand them sluts?”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXRFsKBBYaV/?taken-by=wallflowergirlsays
10. To swear or not to swear, that is the question. So, is ‘Fuck you’ ever the answer?
11. How many times have you let that creep get away with touching you inappropriately, catcalling you on the streets or leching hungrily at your every orifice? All because if you pretend it didn’t actually happen, then it will go away?
12. Even if a million imperfections come together in your body, you’re still beautiful. #BodyPositive always!
13. Every girl’s guide to millennial hookups. What’s your poison?
14. Doing your bit for the Free The Nipple movement. Although only at home because home is where the bra comes off!
15. Is being vain and seeking validation on social media a cloaked cry for help? Some food for thought. Must regurgitate!
16. Let’s talk about our deep dark fears, of every nightmare that we’ve ever had, of everything that keeps us up at night, cowering in cold sweat as we wait for dawn when all will be right again.
17. Do you have what it takes to be the black sheep? The non-conformist who shows a middle finger to what’s ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’ and does what they want to?
18. Our national past-time is taking offense, which is responsible for the rise of trolls, whose comments, in turn, incite more offense. So then, shall we just keep our opinions to ourselves?
19. Adulthood: The struggle is real!
How is it possible that I still forget to do most of the things I sticky note? SOS!
20. It’s not real unless it’s digital! Well here’s my proposal then. Will you be my ‘It’s Complicated’ on Facebook? #PicsOrItDidntHappen
Are you floored or are you FLOORED by #100DaysOfDirtyLaundry?
Of course, there were only a few of the 73 posts that she has shared and another 26 are yet to come. But each of the posts seems to leave one disillusioned about a fake reality that we have come to accept as a norm.
I’ve been truly woken up by this fresh and take on #JustMillennialThings. What about you? Are you likely to do the same, wash your dirty laundry in public anytime soon?
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