Feminist Fight Club: actions

12 February 2009

Inaugural Feminist Ninja Action

I'm getting massively excited about this project. And of course, even though the primary goal is first and foremost to provide a platform for all discontented voices (SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT! See sidebar for directions), a secondary goal is absolutely collective action.

I'm a big fan of guerrilla tactics. So my first proposed action for the Feminist Ninjas is a reaction to Valentine's day, because who hasn't been shit-soaked with advertisements for blood diamonds, e-harmony, and fancy cars for the past month? And it's more than a little frustrating that christo-normativity dominates our capital to such an extent that our market places a gold standard on the christian consumer's dollar.

So in the spirit of friendly holiday vandalism, if you're on the subway on Saturday and you see a particularly inciting advertisement, take out a big ol sharpie/piece of paper/paint (if you're the sort that carries paint on the subway)/make some banners/etc and write what you think.
"Don't let heteronormative capitalism get you down!"
"Emotions are not a commodity"
And on and on. Believe it or not, when folks see something like that, in direct contradiction to the 34023048 ads they're so used to, they're going to AT LEAST spend some time thinking. And thinking is A fucking plus.

Sign off as a feminist ninja, take pictures, blah blah blah.

(probably required disclaimer: you should probably avoid illegal vandalism, or at least don't get arrested. For now.)

11 February 2009

Fusion Film Festival

Nadia, here.

Thus far our wonderful friend Keri has posted two wonderfully raging blogs but this one shall be a bit different. Now that we have criticized, let's exercise our right to ACT. Allow me to elucidate:

Who: Women Filmmakers
What: NYU Fusion Film Festival
When: Feb. 26th - Mar. 1st
Where: Various locations within the NYU campus
Why: Because you love cunts with huge, badass video cameras and therefore love film festivals that inspire, promote, and showcase those wonderful women.

Link: http://www.fusionfilmfestival.com/index2.html

Spread the word, ninjas.

Submitted by: Nadia C

Feminist Ninja How To Guide

So here's what Feminist Fight Club is y’all: We're underground. We will have bloodied knuckles and ink stained hands by the end of it, because we have some big old boogey men to fight. Our intent is to stare ourselves in the eye- the multifaceted multidimensional wonderful unique interesting beings that make up each and every one of you. The person we are staring at is the flat, consumer driven, fetishized, commodified, familiar yet disturbingly bastardized societal representation of the self that you see every day.

What do we want? Your voices. Any time you're looking at that warped funhouse mirror cultural construction of yourself, reclaim it. Poster? Commercial? Ad on the subway? Article that made you more than a little uncomfortable from a "respectable" news source? Episode of that show that you love to hate that just went too far? Rage on it.

Write your anger and display it publicly; on the train, in your neighborhood, at your school, in your lunch lines; with a link this blog. Take a picture, send it to us, up it goes. If you have rants, email them to us and we will make your voice heard. This is simple social science. An archiving of all the ways we feel the social oppression that infiltrates our daily lives, how deeply we feel that in our gut. Women, men, young (dis)abled, old, any race, anyone who feels like this system is failing their hearts.

This is archaeology, cultural anthology, and if we make enough noise, raise enough rabble (And oh yes. We can) it will be a time capsule that will shock the future that we will be integral in building.

If you're not of the email/posting/rabble rousing variety, you are by all means still welcome! Read, and read deeply. Disagree and say, respectively, why. Just comment anywhere, on any post, to say where you heard about this blog, what you have to say about the whole business. We want this to be a clamor, and that means everyone. Informed dissent is useful and encouraged.

Think watch dog. Think consolidation of information. Access access access. Dissemination. The more we know the more power we have. The more we confront everyday issues of power and domination, the easier it will be to take on the bigger, badder issues that matter to us so so hard.

Relevant creative pieces are totally ok. However you're inspired to express yourself. Depending on volume of submissions and where exactly this little baby blog ends up going, we'll evolve from there. Rachael and I have veto power, but the point is lots of noise so that will probably only happen with extremely irrelevant, insincere, or hateful material for now. We'll probably work out a tag system, start initiating collective creative actions, but let's start with getting this kid on her feet.

Directions!
1. Write, create, draw, rant, rave (positivity is good too!). Whatever!
2. Send your submissions to feministninjas@gmail.com. Anonymous submissions are absolutely fine, or sign off however you want to be credited. If you have a blog that you want us to link to, include that too.
3. Rachael and I will post your work, unedited (Man, I don’t edit my own work. The way it’s sent is the way it’ll be posted)
4. Advertise! Guerrilla style! Feministninja.blogspot.com. Write it on sidewalks. Tell your friends. The more people you tell, the more people hear what we all have to say.
5. Congratulations, you’re a Feminist Ninja!

~more to come~

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