The paper considers the sexism expressed, maintained and reproduced by graffiti on the streets and walls of Slovene towns. The conceptual framework used here for discussing sexist graffiti is Judith Baker's concept of injurious speech. The sexist graffiti that has appeared in recent decades on Slovene streets are a marker of the period of neoliberal capitalism, which like all variants of capitalism, is characterised by the fact that it systematically reinforces, strengthens and deepens patriarchy. Sexism in graffiti is usually open and direct, most sexually objectifies the subject, frequently it encourages sexual violence. Alongside this sexual graffiti, which at the micro-level appears as a result of institutional patriarchy, we can also observe a widening of feminist graffiti, which represents a response to sexism in graffiti, as well as to the socio-political structures that facilitate street sexism. The word play involved in sexist graffiti reveals also that injurious speech is also vulnerable, i.e. open to deligitimisation and neutralisation.
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