Mi mamá me enseñó a luchar.
My mother taught me how to fight.
(Source: brujacore, via odetothemodernman)
Molly Crabapple’s poster for the striking Quebec students.
molly crabapple en français!
je me renseigne sur les policiers et les manifestants by léa-kim châteauneuf
châteauneuf made some not-so-subtle changes to the 1965 children’s book “je me renseigne sur les policiers.” i wish it were bilingual! it’s so good. click the link to see all 15 images on facebook.
Ziy performing “Mofo”, a poem (Peterborough, April 2008)
fuck macho bullshit forever reminded me of this. yours truly makes an appearance at around @1:30. i can’t tell you how much it pains me not to have more occasions to boast that i am credited as a “fucking cunt” in a short video.
bing bing bang bing by benoit tardif (available as a t-shirt here)
- casseroles night in canada (facebook events)
- nos casseroles contre la loi speciale (facebook page, french link)
- short radio piece on the noisy form of protest (may 24, 2012)
- ten points everyone should know about the quebec student movement (may 14th, 2012)
- rundown of some important events at the huffington post canada (may 25th, 2012)
note: many news reports refer to the “casseroles” protests as unique to montreal (the province’s largest city). it is essential to note this has been happening around the province, and did not originate in quebec (the cacerolazo are believed to have originated in the early 1970s in chile protesting against salvador allende’s government). there’s an interactive map on google maps where people can contribute locations where they’ve heard the casseroles protests.
A radical feminist and a well-known figure of the Manchester punk and post-punk scene, Linder was known for her montages, which often combined images taken from pornographic magazines with images from women’s fashion and domestic magazines, particularly those of domestic appliances, making a point about the cultural expectations of women and the treatment of female body as a commodity. Many of her works were published in the punk collage fanzine Secret Public, which she co-founded with Jon Savage. One of her best-known pieces of visual art is the single cover for Orgasm Addict by Buzzcocks (1977), showing a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples. “At this point, men’s magazines were either DIY, cars or porn. Women’s magazines were fashion or domestic stuff. So, guess the common denominator – the female body. I took the female form from both sets of magazines and made these peculiar jigsaws highlighting these various cultural monstrosities that I felt there were at the time.”
In 1978, she co-founded the post-punk group Ludus, and she remained its singer until the group split in 1983.* note that this article uses “radical feminist” to mean “person who is radical and a feminist,” not “radical feminist” as racist transphobic douchebags use it.
(edited to add link to her art)
(Source: stephaniematon, via modernistwitchery-deactivated20)
"You can’t win with them: no protest will ever be peaceful enough, docile enough, non-threatening enough to suit their wishes. Expressions of anger against the status quo will always be called disruptive, even violent. Meanwhile, we live in a system that privileges the accumulation of capital over the value of human life, and oppresses us according to our gender, race, ability, age, or class in order to sustain that accumulation. This system enacts daily violence on both those who defy it and those who simply live within it. This violence may be physical – such as the police brutality, surveillance, and disproportionate arrests experienced by student protestors and also by communities of colour, queer communities, and others on a routine basis. Or it may be less tangible but equally destructive, such as the effects of being systematically excluded from higher education, higher-paying jobs, and the possibility of economic “success."
— Mona Luxion, quoted in Resistance is not violence: putting property damage and economic disruption in perspective at the McGill Daily (April 28th, 2012)
image description: part of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie’s series Photographic Memoirs of an Aboriginal Savat. a piece of paper with a black and white photographic and four lines of text below. the photograph is of a naked woman’s torso, her head looking upwards. she is outdoors, in the grass. the text reads:
Intertribal Lust
Vermillion Romance
Just Another
Two Spirited Indian love Call
(via Photographic Memoirs of an Aboriginal Savant)
Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie is an incredibly interesting contemporary artist. She’s part of the Bear Clan of the Duskegee Nation and creates pieces that interact with indigeneity and “Native thought” in provocative and beautiful ways.
the only person that would come to mind today if you asked me who my “heroes” were: hulleah tsinhnahjinnie.
