The Art of Resistance

By Amy Lee LillardSociety & Culture Arts History

The Art of Resistance episodes

June 22 The Art of Manifestos
Today: Five manifestos from radical groups across time and mission.
This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.
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21 min
June 08 The Category is: The Art of Ballroom and Drag
How did this particular form of queer art and culture come to be? How did queer people across centuries find solace and support in these underground and public scenes? And how did the magnificent art of ballroom, and the houses that formed around it, create a powerful form of resistance that continues to defy anyone who tries to erase it?
This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.
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29 min
May 25 Apartheid Art: Afrapix and South African Artists, 1950s-80s
How did artists empower silenced people? How did photographers use access and international press to tell the truth about a country’s atrocities? And how did individuals, and groups like Afrapix, defy the crushing machine of apartheid in South Africa, and send the government tumbling down?
This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.
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27 min
May 11 Rock Rebellion: The Plastic People of the Universe in Soviet Czechoslovakia, 1970s
How did a band in Soviet Czechoslovakia kick off a revolt against repression? How did young Czech people in the 1970s look to the counter culture of the U.S. for inspiration? And what can we learn from the band The Plastic People of the Universe, and their role in the Velvet Revolution, about the role of art in resistance?
This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.
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23 min
March 09Eating Fire: The Lesbian Avengers, 1991+
How did a group of women change the narrative for LGBTQ representation and equality in the early 90s? How did street performance and circus acts turn the invisible visible? And what can we learn from the Lesbian Avengers and fierce pussy about making art as resistance?
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25 min
February 23 “Look at it”: Dorothea Lange's photography and the Japanese Internment, 1930s-40s
How did one woman take pictures so powerful that they were both celebrated and banned? How did a worker with unprecedented access create a living visual library that showed our country’s desperate injustice? And what can we learn from Dorothea Lange and her photos of migrants in the 1930s, and incarcerated Japanese-Americans in the 1940s, about making art as resistance?
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25 min
February 16 "Manifesto of the Erased," 2015
This bonus series celebrates the revolutionary, unrealistic, and analog joy of manifestos.
In this episode: "Manifesto of the Erased: Mujeres, Decolonize El Dios Americano" by Crystal Zaragoza, from 2015.
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This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.
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12 min
February 09 Sewing the truth: Arpilleras in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1989
How did handsewn crafts help desperate women fight back against a dictatorship? How did communal creative groups empower one another? And what can we learn from the arpilleras from Chile about how to make art as resistance, today and tomorrow?
This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
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28 min
February 02 Manifestos: "I Want a President," 1992
This bonus series celebrates the revolutionary, unrealistic, and analog joy of manifestos.
In this episode: "I Want a President," by Zoe Leonard, from 1992.
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This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.
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Get the free guide: 40 Ways to Make Art as Resistance
We know art is resistance. So…how can you make it?
I’ve put together a list of 40 ways to make art as resistance. And you can download it for free when you sign up at rebelyellcreative.com. You’ll get a newsletter with more from this show, ideas and insights, and even opportunities to connect with others.
Sign up at rebelyellcreative.com to get your free guide. And let’s make art as resistance.
10 min
January 26 Working 9 to 5: A Movie and a Movement, 1980
How did a small group of women activists influence Hollywood? How did a comedy smash tap into hidden truths about the workplace? And what can we learn from the movie 9 to 5, and its partnership with a labor movement of working women, about the power of art as resistance?
This is The Art of Resistance, a podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. The show is made by Rebel Yell Creative and Amy Lee Lillard.
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26 min

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A podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. From Gran Fury to Riot Grrrl, from Emory Douglas to Zitkála-Šá, from Samizdat to W.I.T.C.H., we examine how artists…