Reclamation "Mary Magdalene"

Theories abound when it comes to The Magdalene, who’s name also means “The Tower”....but what really interests me is who she was as a real woman who clearly had an important role and voice as a close follower of Jesus, but who was maligned and minimized by the other apostles, and who’s true importance was overshadowed by popular myths that had no foundation in scripture or history. Scholars now believe, in spite of the possible conflation of all the Marys, that she was indeed a healer and a practitioner of the art of anointing, and very likely taught those skills to Jesus himself. Being the first to witness the risen Christ she was technically the first Christian - the Apostle to the Apostles, even though as a woman she was not given that title or stature. She seemed to grasp the more metaphysical understanding of who Jesus was and what his message was, rather than the mere literal understanding that was the more dominant male, hierarchical view. I wanted to show her as a real woman standing in her power of vulnerability and feminine understanding. Her story is as relevant today as it was then...we still see the same minimization and defamation of women as common tactics of subjugation. Suggest that she is a prostitute, and you immediately lessen both her status and her legitimacy… And it’s interesting to note that so often it is the woman’s sexuality that is the target, whether it be elevating her virginity or denigrating her as sexually promiscuous. What would the written text - as well as the translations and interpretations of it be today if the other half of humanity had had a voice in it? Huge thanks to the fabulous HMUA @lisaboehmbeauty and to our gorgeous model @kiran_a_r_quadeer