Doogan is channelling remember-the-martyr vibes with the Death of Marat drapery, emaciated shoulders, and limp arm in this work.

And Mairéad Farrell, the one in the “hard place” (aka dead) is kind of like an Irish Joan of Arc, except that instead of carrying banners she carried bombs. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, Farrell was shot twice in the face and once in the chest by the British military at a gas station in Gibraltar.

Mairéad was badder than Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction. She spent 10 years in prison (most of her twenties) on charges of “causing 3 explosions...and membership of the Irish Republican Army.” She used that decade behind bars to educate herself and her fellow IRA ladies as female revolutionaries—this means they did a lot of reading, talked about political status, and smeared poop on their cell walls in protest.

There are two types of girl power. Mairéad Farrell and Bailey Doogan kind of girl-power, trying to help their girls out, fighting the good fight with Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems. The other is the Margaret Thatcher variety that Eric Andre asked Scary Spice about on his show.

      Andre: “Do you think Margaret Thatcher had girl power?”

      Scary Spice: “Of course!!!!”

      Andre: “Do you think she effectively utilized girl power by funnelling money to illegal para-milatary death squads in Northern Ireland?”Awkward.The Spice Girls fall somewhere in the middle, next to 21st century Marina Abramovic probably.

Doogan was raised (in part) by her 6-foot-tall, divorced, waitress-into-her-70s grandmother, so she’s no stranger to strong, Irish, female role-models. Although probably Doogan’s grammy didn’t kill anybody. Except maybe her ex-husband on account of their “Irish divorce”: he went out for cigarettes and never came back. Doogan divorced her one-time husband but kept his name because she likes the alter-ego. Men are violent, and Bailey Doogan has no qualms throwing it right back.

She evokes that violence with unnerving success. This image and Farrell’s words at the top (“Your mind is your strongest weapon because they can’t control your mind they can’t get inside and that’s their failure”) reminded teenage girls in Brooklyn of their own power. Bombs and ideas are sometimes the same thing. Good and bad.