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?

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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1. Watch the Lesbian Avengers eating fire
2. Download fierce pussy posters and art
3. Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com.

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We're taking a break!

Now’s a perfect time to catch up on old episodes. We’re taking a mid season break, and will back in a few weeks. During the break – head over to RebelYellCreative.com for a free resistance library. You’ll find free guides and how-tos on making art as resistance, recommended reading, and much more. And, you’ll find analog art kits, including guided journals you can use to find your path to making art as resistance.

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?

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. Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com.

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?

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.

Make your own manifesto! Sign up at RebelYellCreative.com to get early access to analog art kits, coming soon.

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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.

Mentioned in this episode:

Get the free guide: 40 Ways to Make Art as Resistance

We know art is resistance. So…how can you make it?

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.

To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.

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Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com.

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Check out Art Against Empire

This episode is presented by another podcast I think you’ll love. Art Against Empire dives into the radical history of craft. Host Ian Danger Capstick, a delightful person with an even better name, talks to artists, craftspeople, and activists who use making as a form of resistance. From textile workers' strikes to guerrilla street art, from Indigenous craft sovereignty to anti-capitalist maker spaces—the show explores how human creativity has always been a tool for liberation.

This bonus series celebrates the revolutionary, unrealistic, and analog joy of manifestos.

In this episode: "I Want a President," by Zoe Leonard, from 1992.

Make your own manifesto! Sign up at RebelYellCreative.com to get early access to analog art kits, coming soon.

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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.

Mentioned in this episode:

Get the free guide: 40 Ways to Make Art as Resistance

We know art is resistance. So…how can you make it?

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.

To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.

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Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Get the free guide: 40 Ways to Make Art as Resistance

We know art is resistance. So…how can you make it?

How has one song stunned for nearly a century? How was it so powerful that the federal government targeted the singer for decades? And what can we learn from the story of “Strange Fruit” and Billie Holiday about how art is 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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Watch the performance of "Strange Fruit" from 1956, mentioned in this episode.

Get full episode transcript and sources 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?

Season 2 is coming Monday, January 12! New episodes will premiere every other week.

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Creative tools and support for 2026: Sign up at RebelYellCreative.com to learn about all the ways you can make dangerous, powerful art this year!

1. Make your podcast in 2026: 9-week email course
2. Expand your art: Art School for Adults
3. Be a neurodivergent artivist: How to be an Autivist workbook
4. Get everything! Art Lab Memberships

Books and more from Amy Lee Lillard: Start the year with new fiction, nonfiction, audio fiction, and music!

1. Story collections: Exile in Guyville and Dig Me Out
2. Memoir: A Grotesque Animal
3. Novels: A Woman is a God and Not a Stitch to Wear
4. Audio fiction: Wyrd Woman podcast
5. Music: Nuclear Shadow

In this bonus series we're looking at modern artists using art as a tool of resistance. Today: Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey. Connect with Caleb at TheNegroArtist.com

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. Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com.

To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Get the free guide: 40 Ways to Make Art as Resistance

We know art is resistance. So…how can you make it?

Performing the Revolution comes from the team at Radical Evolution. Check out the first episode here, then listen to the full four-episode series in your favorite podcast player.

In this episode: Meet Jana Natya Manch aka Janam, one of India's storied street theatre companies. We follow their journey from one of their most crucial, catalyzing and tragic moments in the 1980's, all the way through to the work they make today.

Learn more about the show!

And big thanks to Remoy Phillip and Meropi Peponides for reaching out, and for creating this wonderful show!

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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. Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com.

To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at RebelYellCreative.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Get the free guide: 40 Ways to Make Art as Resistance

We know art is resistance. So…how can you make it?