MISSION STATEMENT

FOR THE BIRDS is a New York City-based feminist collective. We are interested in establishing alternative spaces that promote the creative interests of women-identified community members. For The Birds is a collaborative group of organizers with backgrounds in feminist social justice work and various artistic pursuits. Through DIY feminist cultural activism, For The Birds aims to empower and support radical women of action.

As a collective, we intend to connect with other groups to create a feminist network through a collaborative blog, shared resources, semi-annual zine, and future events. We aim to foster more of a visible presence of women at community events with a distro featuring feminist voices. We plan to host events like skill-shares, discussions, forums, art and music shows.

If you are interested in organizing or collaborating with us, please get in touch!

ABOUT US

For the Birds formed in the wake of the Long Island Womyn’s Collective and in concurrence with many other projects — including the 3rd annual Big She-Bang! festival [originally organized by the LIWC], the Big She-Bang! compilation, The Worst compilation zine, and the Biography of Jodi Tilton zine, among other artistic and activist projects. For the Birds was a nameless, nebulous group when we began planning the Big She-Bang 3. Soon after the festival was over, we re-established our dedication to a fully active DIY feminist presence in the New York area and in the following months, chose the moniker For the Birds.

A group of New York women took the initiative to pick up where previous creative feminist projects left off, and established a collective whose main intent is fostering the creative empowerment of women, as well as the dissemination of feminist projects: art, music, information, and scholarly work. A large part of this feminist info-sharing occurs in the form of a distro and a label imprint. In our distro, we carry writing, art, and music by feminists and women-identified folks. On our label imprint, we continue to publish similar work.

Aside from carrying and producing feminist work, For the Birds is a feminist curatorial group, booking DIY art, music, and multimedia events in New York City. We have also authored a workshop entitled “Queer Eye for the DIY,” about maintaining a more inclusive feminist practice while staying true to our DIY roots.

Please see our distro/label section for a complete list of our original releases.

HERSTORY

For a comprehensive list of the shows and events we’ve curated as well as our news archive, please check out our Herstory section here.