In the Spiked Riot issue, women against the patriarchy tell you, in handwritten and cut ‘n’ paste style, how to transform your bathroom into a feminist hell-raising war-zone by leaving political literature and reusable menstrual products around and hanging “controversial” art on the walls. Another guide tells us that we can graffiti “Smash the Patriarchy,” “Women are not commodities,” the circle-A and the double-female sign in various public places. They even tell you where each piece graffiti is most appropriate, and that you can use a Sharpie or paint to do them, in case you can’t figure that out. Compared to the angry manifesto decrying “classical liberalism’s public/private division as a paradigm that only enforces hierarchy,” we’re left wondering where the actual substance of the zine went. Too bad, because these anarchists seem to know what they want. (Frandroid Atreides)
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