Fire in Our Bellies, Ants in Our Pants
December 19th, 2010Pictures from the successful protest on December 19, 2010 against the Smithsonian’s descent to rabid censorship:
Onward Christian Soldiers - the crowd stretched from the Met to the Cooper-Hewitt Museums
Crossing Fifth Avenue
Death by Audio
Protestor X!
Lisa Phillips of the New Museum, which is showing Wojnarowicz' video
"This is what your parents used to do!" says Jerry Saltz
Artist Nayland Blake and "it's-complicated" friend
Conclusion at Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
December 20th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
I agree with Jerry!
Kids this is what your parents did and me too while I was at SVA!!!
I designed the David Wojnarowicz masks with the labels, queer. female trans black, red, white to make the protest inclusive.
Corresponding chant:
The Catholic League Censors
the queer body
the female body
the trans body
the red body
the yellow body
the black body
EVERYBODY