London art student responds to teacher's advice to 'dial down the feminism' with new work

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When a London art student got feedback from her teacher, the response wasn’t what she was expecting.

Alex Ruth Bertulis-Fernandes tweeted that her art teacher had suggested that she ‘dial down the feminism’, so she sent him a new work in response.

We don’t know what it was about her original work that her teacher found troubling, but we hope he finds some salvation in her latest creation.

Her new work depicts a dial cranked up to ‘Raging Feminist’, as opposed to the other end of the scale: ‘Complicit in my own dehumanisation’.

Bertulis-Fernandes has yet to reveal what her teacher made of the new work, but we’re giving it top marks.

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After her tweet with the image went viral, she said that she was “overwhelmed” by the response and considering using the design on prints and t-shirts, and would share details on her Twitter account once she had decided.

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