Hey people! Today you’ll meet the Women graffiti site Graffgirlz! Thanks to this site, we’ll present you every week an artist through an interview and pictures. Let’s begin with the site with a text wrote by the creator!

www.graffgirlz.com was created a little less than 3 years ago. This site allows women graffiti artists worldwide to exhibit their pieces. Today, graffgirlz.com is composed of 195 members. The most represented countries are Spain, USA and France.

The approach of this site is not to make gender an extraordinary characteristic, but on the contrary, to trivialize the fact that among graffiti artists, there are also women. Graffiti female artists who can have as much similarities and differences that may have their male colleagues.

Some only do legal, others also perform vandalism, some are more tag writers that graffiti artists, some only make characters, anyway, we can not confine female artists to one practice of graffiti.

Show through a site that women have an increasing position in graffiti, it is denying their gender. When facing a wall or any other surface, there is no gender. For both men and women, gender can no longer be a criterion for exception. It is no more difficult for a woman to carry out a vandal plan, even if she has to climb obstacles or whatever. If she decides to do so, then she likes it and the result is no more impressive than the same thing done by a guy. Let’s watch the pieces, not who’s behind the spray paint can.
You can also ask guys who are used to paint with girls; they don’t pay attention to this criterion anymore, they paint with a buddy with whom they share the same passion, not with “a girl who paints”.

This seems paradoxical, but it is one of the goals of graffgirlz.com to help forget the gender of graffiti artists to focus only on the one important thing: achievements.

One thing is quite interesting when looking at the site: you can see that female crews also exist, as if there was a need to unite to “confront” a predominantly male environment.

It is true that some are still refractory when facing a woman who painted. Several things certainly explain this lack of enthusiasm. Often, a girl who paints is associated to her boyfriend; before being “someone”, she is first “this guy’s girl”. Of course, sometimes a female graffiti artist could date a male graffiti writer, but it’s not necessarily why she began to paint, although it happens… However, to exist as “a guy’s girl” is not very glorifying, just as if it was not conceivable that a girl paints with a spray can just because she likes it.

Sometimes, some also use their difference to get plans or whatever. Some others do not make great pieces but are well known or exposed, much more than guys who make quality pieces. There are thousands of guys who make quality pieces around the world while there is still a minority of girls who paint and sometimes it is true that one hears more about the female graffiti artists because they are girls than for the quality of their work, sometimes even more for the “gossip” than for the graffiti.
These points then surely handicapped those who paint because it is their passion and a lot more is definitely expected from these girls. This is not a phenomenon restricted to graffiti, but to any predominantly male environment.

Graffgirlz.com is not here to shout “girl power”, or to bring in opposition girls and guys, but just to promote respect by showing diversity.