Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Feminists in Current Visual Resistance

Kristine Virsis – Alice
Last week I went to an event at Bluestockings, a radical bookstore in lower Manhattan, for the book Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, based on a traveling exhibition of amazing protest art.  A group of artists included in the book gathered to share their thoughts on making art to promote social [...]

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

NYU’s Riot Grrrl Archive & Alison Piepmeier’s book “Girl Zines”

As women and feminists, zine writing has been a crucial part of documenting our personal and political history for almost two decades. So, how excited were we at For The Birds Collective to hear that Kathleen Hanna donated her papers and zines to NYU’s Riot Grrl Archive at Fales Library! Immediately following my reaction “how [...]

Monday, January 18th, 2010

FOR THE BLOGS

Hello birdfriends,
Us here at For the Birds HQ have made a decision to be more present in the internet world. At the moment, the majority of us are in grad school, in touring bands, or just busy with other projects, and we decided this would be a good way to remain constantly active. So let’s [...]