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Raised Fist Review: Punk Music

July 14, 2014 by femmetech

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Who among us who #1 goes to see bands, and #2 has the physical ability, has never raised a fist at any show ever? Rock. The. Fuck. On. Right??!! These raised fists show up in punk flyers from the 90’s and GUESS WHAT: the 90’s are back, y’all. Positive Force…

Delicious Coffee In a Raised Fist

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 by femmetech

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Catalog items: Expresso La Forza label | New Harvest Coffee logo | Baristas Rise Up Today we’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. It’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…

Political Art Lectures for 2014

December 9, 2013December 10, 2013 by femmetech

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I'm writing to share resources for teachers looking for a NYC-based field trips for classes on art/politics/sociology/archives, etc: INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE ON-SITE TOURS I recently began an appointment as the Resident Scholar at the Interference Archive [www.interferencearchive.org], a public archive of political art ephemera in Brooklyn. See a NY Times article…

Raised Fist Slideshow in Pittsburgh 10/23

October 13, 2013November 25, 2013 by femmetech

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The Fist Is Still Raised Slideshow Weds Oct 23, 7pm at The Big Idea Cooperative What do The Lavender Left, Food Not Bombs, radical labor organizers, 1970s feminists, the IWW, Black Power, OWS, anti-imperialist organizing, and fisting have in common? They -- and many more -- all use illustrations of…

My ### Is A Muscle The Size of Your Fist

February 14, 2013April 17, 2019 by femmetech

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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…

On power

February 11, 2013July 17, 2013 by femmetech

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In preparation for the "Queer Power, Queer Vulnerability" talk I gave at the IVYQ conference last week, I've been thinking a lot about power... I think about it in many forms and am actually kind of obsessed. [caption id="attachment_185" align="alignleft" width="300"] Musical Power Notes, Feb 2013[/caption] I think about resistance,…

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 “effectiveness” or…

Insurgency and Anarchafeminism

November 20, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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Basically my life is totally great because I decided to make it my part-time job to study how people are collectively, creatively rebellious. Again, this means I look at participatory extralegal systems like socially-engaged, guerilla and performance art, tactical media, forms of DIY/DIWO production cultures, copyleft, and pop-ed. One of…

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