Frida Kahlo Norms

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3. Frida provides many examples of how Frida Kahlo challenged gender roles/norms and sexuality norms/ expectations. Frida has many disabilities and miscarriages. This challenges her womanly expectation of being a mother and depending on a man. When Frida and Diego moves to New York she becomes bisexual. Hollinger states, “The film also refuses to condemn Frida for her sexuality or for her bisexual affairs, which are presented as neither unnatural nor as minimizing the significance of her artistic endeavors. Frida is hardly portrayed as the female victim,” (Hollinger 183).After Frida walks in on Diego sleeping with her sister she becomes more of a masculine character. She cuts her hair, paints herself dressed as a man, and develops more of a
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