Posts about Creative Resistance

Where is today’s resistance music?

Where is resistance music today?

Music once had the power to unify across racial and political divides In the 20th century, protest[…]

Vivien Leigh as Blanch DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Warner Bros. Pictures (1951)

Denial doesn’t save us

How do artists craft magic that doesn’t erase reality, but illuminates it? In “A Streetcar Named Desire,”[…]

Maurizio Cattelan, "Comedian" (2019)

Irony, parody, satire … or ridicule?

When it comes to creative resistance, offer insights. Otherwise, it is just mockery. What makes irony, parody,[…]

Guerilla Girls is a collective of anonymous female artists who have used malicious compliance and resistance to challenge sexism and inequality in the art world. One of their most famous works, "Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met Museum?" (1989), followed advertising conventions but subverted them by exposing gender disparities in museum collections.

Resistance. Malicious compliance. Dissidence.

Art endures because courage endures Some believe the arts have the power to affect change. Others see[…]

The Empath Strikes Back

The Empath Strikes Back

Wherever you are. Whatever your creative expression. Tomorrow, Saturday, April 19, 2025, fire your shot for our[…]

Send in the clowns

Send in the clowns

The circus is already in town. Why not join it on purpose? Create to Liberate Idea No.[…]

"America" by Touba Alipour

66 ways to creatively resist

Now is the time to create boldly and act with purpose Yesterday’s locations and turnout for HandsOff![…]

Tell me what to do

Tell me what to do

“I paid for the whole course, so I’m going to play the whole course, goddammit!” Create to[…]

Give us a sign

Give us a sign

The idea of telling the truth in public is at the root of protesting Create to Liberate[…]

Go big or go home

Go big or go home

The incredible power of puppetry as a medium for storytelling and social commentary Create to Liberate Idea[…]

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