I never intended Art Hoe to be that way.” People of colour are often denied artistic ability, or the things we birth into the world are stolen by white counterparts. “People tried to use the ‘angry black person’ stereotype when I called them out on it telling me it wasn’t a big deal. My mum bought me a camera for $70 on Amazon and that was a lot for us. It hurt me, because I don’t have an income like that – I can’t go and buy an expensive DSLR. “It seemed really classist – that you had to have this certain level of wealth. When that came to my attention, we started to fight back and identify as a movement.” The white-girl version of Art Hoe was, argues Mars, offensive and exclusive in a way theirs never was. “To belong in their group you had to have a $100 backpack, a $20 Japanese sketchbook – shit like that. “It was getting co-opted by this little group of skinny, frail, white girls,” Mars explains. Photograph: īut they’re not the only ones using #arthoe. View image in fullscreen True colours … a shot from Sensitive Black Person. It was, Mars says, “a space for people like us” – the proud outsiders who want to express themselves through art. ![]() I’ve never heard ‘art ho’ without the ‘e’ outside my group of friends, but now I’m thinking out loud about how controversial and contradictory it is.” The term was first coined by Babeo, founder of the rap group Barf Troop – on Twitter – and adopted by Jam and Mars to pull together images that touched on their interests: queer culture, gender, identity politics and visual art. I have a lot of friends who strip, and they’ve been reclaiming the word. “Then ‘ho’ was claimed by black people, and over the years it’s been used so loosely it’s become trivialised. “‘Hoe’ is derived from whore, which was used against sex workers,” explains Mars. Photograph: įor a movement with such a supportive ethos – Mars and Jam try to reblog every submission they’re tagged in – why did they choose such a potentially offensive name? ![]() ![]() To the sea … one of the #arthoe works on Sensitive Black Person.
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