Raised fists in activist settings symbolize strength, unity, resistance, and community. Fists themselves have additional meanings: often one thinks of hitting or violence, but to the queer community an additional meaning lurks pruriently behind the surface. After raising for LGBTQ rights throughout the 1980s, and for AIDS activism in the 1990s, a confluence of fists and safer sex rhetoric emerged visually through the production of images of raised fists in gloves in the late 2010’s.
Category: Kink/Sex/Queer
My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
My Cunt Is A Muscle… is based on the wonderful Your Heart Is a Muscle 1999 woodcut by Dalia Sapon-Shevin, then a member of the Syracuse Cultural Workers, it was made as an inspiration to activists and a response to the state repression experienced during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999. Dalia’s… Continue reading My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist
Hart Collective is teaching DIY Web at the US Social Forum!
The inimitable Sarah Jenny and I — wearing our femmetech hats as the Hart Collective — are going to the US Social Forum in Detroit this June! Our workshop, DIY New Media: Creating and Maintaining an Activist Presence using Websites, Blogs, Audio/Podcasts and SMS was accepted this week. We’ll be steamrolling our way through demystifying… Continue reading Hart Collective is teaching DIY Web at the US Social Forum!