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Amplify: Graphic Narratives of Feminist Resistance
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About Amplify: Graphic Narratives Of Feminist Resistance
Product Description In this highly original text—a collaboration between a college professor, a playwright, and an artist—graphic storytelling offers an emotionally resonant way for readers to understand and engage with feminism and resistance. Issues of gender roles, intersectionality, and privilege are explored in seven beautifully illustrated graphic vignettes. Each vignette highlights unique moments and challenges in the struggle for feminist social justice. Brief background information provides context for the uninitiated, and further readings are suggested for those who would like to learn more. Finally, carefully crafted discussion questions help readers probe the key points in each narrative while connecting specific stories to more general concepts in gender studies and feminist theory. Review "This is the book for you if you have ever struggled to reconcile the academic, artistic, and activist sides of yourself: it combines feminist analysis and history with compelling discussion questions and striking illustrations of recent political struggles. This is the book for you if you are ready to learn about social justice in a fresh way that engages multiple learning styles and modes of expression: lead a class or a discussion group by showing an image, posing a debate question, reading an excerpt, or pursuing one of the research activities provided. This is the rare book that treats its readers as equals by showing us all how we can join the conversation and take up the struggle." (Lucas Crawford, Department of English, University of New Brunswick) About the Author Norah Bowman is Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor in the English Literature Department at Okanagan College. Meg Braem is a Governor General Award-nominated playwright based in Calgary. Dominique Hui is a graduate of OCADU and a freelance artist/illustrator based in Toronto. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Part Three: Feminism and Resistance Collectives Chapter 4. Pussy Riot In the 2000s, in Moscow, a collective of university students, artists, and activists formed a performance art group named Voina. The group (the word voina means war in Russian) performed ironic, witty, and clever performances aimed at government corruption, repression of LGBTQIIA communities, and police brutality. Perhaps their most infamous stunt was a large drawing of a penis and testicles on a drawbridge in front of the KGB station in Moscow; when the drawbridge was raised, the penis lifted, pointing in the direction of the KGB. The acts of Voina were recorded and spread through YouTube videos and international social media; the members, however, remained under the radar. Pussy Riot emerged from a Voina LGBTQIIA rights action. Members of Voina approached police officers, asked for directions, and thanked the police officers with an enthusiastic embrace and kiss on the mouth. These exchanges were coordinated to only be same-sex encounters, but male members of Voina made excuses to avoid involvement. The women of Voina went ahead with the action, and from the women’s success came the idea for Pussy Riot, a women-led performance art collective with a focus on gender and sexual orientation rights and freedoms. The collective first formed in August 2011 with eleven members between the ages of twenty and forty-two. Nadhezhda Tolokonnikova (Nadya), Maria Alyokhina (Masha), and Yekaterina Samutsevich (Kat) were three of the continuing and permanent members. Kat, Masha, and Nadya were arrested in 2012 for their participation in the performance of “Punk Prayer, Mother of God Chase Putin Away” in a Russian Orthodox Church. In prison the women became activists for their fellow inmates, and once released, Nadya and Masha returned to Pussy Riot activities and performances, enduring violent attacks from Russian police and citizens. Openly feminist and advocating for queer rights, Pussy Riot uses the lively medium of punk music and original
