Deshaming the Vagina through Literacy & Art: Pussypedia, a Bilingual Vagina Encyclopedia

Discussions about Vagina, sex, and sexuality have been shrouded in mystery. A lot of women have grown up seeing their vaginas as way too sacred to have conversations about, making it tough to get comfortable with our bodies, speak about all the nooks and crannies of our own bodily workings.
What we find from this background of mystery and secrecy is a society that is wrought with taboos, the subordination of women and then policies that end up shaming women for making decisions about their own bodies.

Pussypedia has taken the bull by the horn and is giving a fun literacy/narrative view on vaginas, making women comfortable with their vaginas. Using Art, photography, highlights of legal news and even cartoons, Pussypedia shines a light on the normalcy of loving your body.
Created by Maria Conejo and Young Zo, Pussypedia is a free platform of bilingual vagina encyclopedia.

Young Zo researches, thinks, talks, and writes about cities, emojis, tech, language, data, maps, pussies, and other semi-related topics. According to her, her work varies widely but it’s all a protracted temper tantrum against the generation’s nihilist streak.

Maria Conejo loves to make representations of the human body through drawing and headless character creation. Using the naked body is Maria’s response to a culture that makes us feel that having a body is something bad. She is therefore interested in revealing it as something beautiful and joyful of itself.

Gbemi Lolade Adekanmbi is the cultivator of For Creative Girls. She is a firm believer in the fact that there is no division between the ability for science and the ability for Art. Her goal is to cultivate this ability with as many people as possible and make creatives a living, breathing part of how the world, organisations, and societies run.