Magdalene Bouchard
Blessed Amongst Women Zine
Illustration
2022
gouache, india ink, permanent marker, white acrylic
8.5 x 5.5
12 pages, B&W,
“Blessed Amongst Women is a reflection on my religious upbringing with a specific focus on how the character and story of Mother Mary was a device used to groom myself and other young girls into being passive objects of sex. To be something that sex happens to but not permitted to personally desire or engage in sex, only in raising subsequent children. To be a virgin mother. ”
Work by
Magdalene Bouchard
Illustration
“My mother raised me to believe that to be holy is to suffer, that if I am hungry or tired I should offer that suffering to God, as tribute. I may not be Catholic anymore, but between putting used...” [More]