Nate Swift

Aliens Make Good Housewives , 2024

 Aliens and housewives, what could they possibly have in common?  Just as we have preconceived notions on how aliens should look and act, society has applied the same principles to women.  
 
The absurdity of enforcing ‘traditional’ gender roles onto women, especially in modern society, is an act of deprivation, and that deprivation of individuality causes women to feel alienated.  “A good housewife does this, a good housewife does that”, but when does the housewife ever feel good?  
 
This project is not only about critiquing expected roles and characteristics for women, but for everybody.  No matter what gender, race, sexuality or religion we are, at the very basis, we are all human.  Despite being the core thing everyone has in common, humanity has been lost in a society that cares too much about forcing people into boxes, labelling those boxes and assigning characteristics to those labels; it does more harm than good, and has been doing so for centuries, except, of course, for cisgendered heterosexual white men.