Art of Resistance: Guerrilla Girls

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Guerrilla Girls have been resisting sexism and racism through art for the last 30 years. An anonymous collective of gorilla-mask bedecked agitators, their campaigns have ranged from protests to posters, billboards, and museum interventions. With style, humor, and collective action, they call attention to issues rich and powerful institutions would rather side-step. All the members take pseudonyms after dead women artists. We talked with founding members Frida Kahlo and Käthe Kollwitz about the body of work collected in a new book: Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly.

As we all grit our teeth for Election Day, we wanted to hear from people who have been deeply engaged in changing systems, for the long haul.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:03.2	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:06.0	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:07.7	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:09.7	Hi Anne Friedman.
0:10.8	Hello, hello Amina Tussaud.
0:12.7	We have a real treat today on the show.
0:15.2	It is our second of two episodes about art and resistance,
0:20.0	which, you know, I had this moment where I was like,
0:22.7	is this the best use of our last podcast before the election?
0:27.6	And I am going to say yes in part because today's guests have been
0:32.4	at their work for a long time, 30 years to be precise.
0:36.4	And for me anyway, being in touch with the stories of people who are,
0:41.7	who have been working hard for a long time and are going to continue to work hard,
0:45.3	regardless of who is sitting in the White House or in State houses,
0:49.7	that makes me feel better on some level of just like the,
0:52.4	it's not all about whatever happens on Tuesday.
0:55.0	We are pleased to have on the podcast two of the Gorilla Girls
0:59.5	who are an art and activist collective with a kind of rotating,
1:04.4	not entirely fixed crew of members.
1:08.3	All of the members take on the name of a dead woman artist as their student
1:14.4	them for all of their work related to the Gorilla Girls.
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