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Normalities. We tend to see our everyday lives as “normal”, even as a natural way of being. But what is it that characterizes normal as “normal”? Most of us may be aware that much of human history has been outlined by highly patriarchal cultures that still exists to this day. However, what we may not be aware of is how patriarchal ways of life tend to manifest in forms that we rarely, if ever, consider because we believe that the ways in which we live are “normal”. Not only is the system of patriarchy present in obvious behaviours of sexism or patrilineality, it also exists in competitive educational systems, family relations, workplace hierarchies. Our exhibit provides an unconventional perspective on how patriarchy permeates throughout our society and in the quotidian compositions of our lives that are considered “normal”.