Lady Beasts

In my attempts to try to create political beasts out of thin air, I got stuck in a rabbit hole. I kept looking between trump’s political insults and back at classic symbols out on armor. Unconsciously, the beasts that most closely aligned were with words that President Trump has used.

Looking at a variety of sites, I collected some of the worst ones:

A beginner’s guide to heraldry 

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/easter/preparing-for-easter-adventure-quests/our-guide-to-heraldry/

Trump Insults

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/21/nasty-is-trumps-insult-choice-women-he-uses-it-plenty-men-too/

Trump insults for women 

https://www.axios.com/a-list-of-trumps-attacks-on-prominent-women-1513303964-8ef61562-4dcc-4cf0-aea6-0ec89457fbc1.html

The way trump attacks the squad 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/17/trump-attacks-squad-scared-politics

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41617/41617-h/41617-h.htm#page218

Herladry: 

https://www.heraldryandcrests.com/

More Heraldry 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41617/41617-h/41617-h.htm#page218

Guide to heraldry 

Click to access cu31924029796608.pdf

Ant-strong labourer, wise and provident in all his affairs.

And as a result, I came up with these hybrids. Ultimately, I hope to create some sort of a guide/reactionary Instagram every time that Trump creates an insulting tweet.

In this last investigation of the Dacre Beasts, I wanted to counteract the fact that all of the beasts are male and display their genitals. Beast is a masculine term, so research lead to a political beast, Donald Trump and his offensive language towards women. I took some of his most iconic insults towards women and I hybridized them with classic heraldry to create mythological Nasty Women, as a reclamation and reflection of the insults into mythology. 

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