Sunday’s Anarchy is Female workshop felt like exactly where we needed to be. A large group of people arrive at the shop ready to get to work; to plan and organize together, to imagine ways of being, acting, resisting, and re-imagining the world outside of, and in resplendent antagonism towards, the specter of patriarchy.

Many flags were hand-drawn and matchbooks stamped. Variations on the Anarchy is Female logo were printed. 200 were produced and handed out, many of these being delivered to Washington D.C. for the inauguration, and others staying here for various actions.

As the day ran on Crystal and Sam both thought the gathering shouldn’t simply occur just once. After the Inauguration we’ll re-group and plan on future, possibly monthly, Anarchy is Female gatherings. Stay tuned.

 

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Sun, Jan. 15, 2017 ⁄ 12:00–4:00pm

Anarchy is Female: Workshop and Gathering

 

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Organized by: Crystal Quinn, Alexa Horochowski, & Beyond Repair

Based on inherent feeling towards what is and what exists around us, the battle against this patriarchal culture, is inherently female.

Around the rallying cry “Anarchy is Female” all are invited to come together for a printing event and skill / knowledge / experience share. Throughout the day we will be printing multiple different Anarchy is Female designs to be used for the inauguration protests within the city and throughout the US, including the Million Women’s March in D.C.

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Matchbook Club:

As a quick reaction to the recent electoral let down, a group of female artists have come together to create. Started out as a “book club”, they quickly shifted into a loving and creative space to discuss and create. For this event, the Matchbook Club will have matchbooks for take-away, as well as a handful of posters that respond to harassment in a non-violent way. Words are our friends. We have to start somewhere and we have to keep moving.

Make Flag / Burn Flag:

Many citizens are feeling disillusionment, anger, and frustration after an ugly election where expressions of xenophobia, racism and misogyny flared and threaten to become normalized. Burning a flag is considered “symbolic speech” and protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. In conjunction with the exhibition “BLEED & BURN ” Alexa Horochowski invites participants to make their own, small flags with personalized statements, to be burned independently.

The Exhibition, “BLEED & BURN,” is on view at The Soap Factory, January 14-21, 2017.

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All are invited to utilize the space in and around Beyond Repair to consider and convene their ideas on creative resistance to misogyny and patriarchy.

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Anarchy is Female workshop, skill-share, printed extravaganza for radical female empowerment and care on Jan. 15 at the shop.

Details coming soon.

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Excited for work we’re planning with Crystal Quinn and Alexa Horochowski around the inauguration, as well, in specific, workshops, talks, and making as regards women’s self-defense and anti-misogyny tactics inspired by Crystal’s Anarchy is Female logo.

More news to come before the new year.

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