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Delicious Coffee In a Raised Fist

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 by femmetech

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Catalog items: Expresso La Forza label |Â New Harvest Coffee logo |Â Baristas Rise Up Today weâ€™re going to talk about my favorite thing in the morning, afternoon, and early evening: coffee. Even though I feel complicated about the use of raised fists for logos, I accept all things about coffee. Itâ€™s…

Raised Fist[ing]

February 17, 2014February 17, 2014 by femmetech

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Raised fists in activist settings symbolize strength, unity, resistance, and community. To many queer communities, fists themselves have additional meanings: while often one thinks of hitting or violence, additional meanings lurk pruriently behind the surface. After raising for LGBTQ rights throughout the 1980s, and for AIDS activism in the 1990s,…

Reuse, Repurposing, and Capitalizing on Raised Fist images

January 5, 2014January 21, 2014 by femmetech

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TODAY's FISTS: Boss Revolution | Underdogs As raised fist images are used over more decades and with a broader variety of political meanings, the attentive viewer notices this icon used for advertising and marketing purposes that may seem to dilute or complicate the original political intentions for which this image…

Pedagogy: What in Art Makes Change

November 23, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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My BIG QUESTION is: how do arts-based cultural works effect change? And the inverse of that is: what is missing in the understanding of the effectiveness of participatory, relational, or socially-engaged art when we want to find cultural resistance within it? What other ways can we think about â€œeffectivenessâ€ or…

Where It Lands: Users and Relational Aesthetics

November 6, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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We did an overview of what activist, and socially-engaged / participatory art is and who it is made by in the last posts, so now lets look at some of the ideas artists and makers invoke behind this type of work: users and usership, relationality, intersubjectivity* and groups. [caption id="attachment_84"…

Intro To Study

November 1, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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Over the next three months there will be weekly [ish] posts with writing and readings. Learn with me, talk back to me and each other. To get started and read along, I suggest the following: â€œContributions to a Resistance Visual Culture Glossaryâ€ by Nato Thompson, http://journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/new3/thompson.html Peruse Beautiful Trouble: A…

Screenprint Design for fabric printing, 2011-2013

July 29, 2012April 15, 2016 by femmetech

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Screenprinting was popularized during WWII by the Works Progress Administration's Screen Print Division, which taught hundreds of artists what had until then been a specialized and inaccessible method of production. And now... Femmes Fight Back, 2010 Heels on Wheels tour patches, 2011