Red Menace!!: Women's Bathroom Wall Grafitti Conversation

~The Red Menace~

Radical Feminist, Anarcha-Socialist, Lezbian Queer Dyke Cunt Lover, Secular Humanist, Activist Social Change Agent, Mestiza-Classed, Community Builder, RED MENACE!!

I'm a Public Leader, Community Organizer, and Community Builder. And I'm also an Anarcha-Socialist who fights to eliminate capitalism and other political, social, and economic hierarchies to create a society without institutions where all people have equal access to knowledge and production, emphasizes trade unions and decentralized methods of direct democracy, and finds any institutional form to be abusive. And I'm a Radical Feminist who believes the cause of women's oppression to be within patriarchy and the cause of all oppression to be in the mimicked hierarchical structures such as capitalism and amerikkkanism and globalism and colonialism and imperialism and jesusgodism which means society needs to be recreated and not changed cuz change just rearranges the same shit in a different order. And I'm a Secular Humanist who believes we got ourselves into this mess and can only rely on ourselves to get the hell out. And I'm Mestiza-Classed: the educated working-class wonder! And a Lezbian Queer Dyke Cunt Lover. An active activist social change agent iconoclastic catalyst. A VOICE with capital letters that stand tall and out and above and are heard and seen...always an outspoken mouth on the pretty face of the strong head of an independent woman. I'm an individual within the collective. And a Revolution! I'm a ReVoLuTiOn! and revolutionizer. A riotous redhead. THE Red Menace!

Friday, February 12, 2010

Women's Bathroom Wall Grafitti Conversation - 1971, Iowa City, IA

- Try a bisexual, I've been happy with one for years.
- I'm sorry you have such a problem.
- Have any of you out there in academia loved a fag? Christ, what a plight. Is there a resolution?
- A physical one is OK. I can understand. But not a mental fag.
- It's an empty relationship. Believe me, I know.
- Maybe if you stop thinking of him as a fag you could start relating to him as a human being. There ARE relationships to be had other than sexual ones.
- That's true, but a Platonic relationship can be frustrating if you're horney.
- Sodomy is a sin!
- Do people still believe in sin?
- Jesus is the real thing. Don't know it til you've tried it.

(as printed in Iowa City Women's Press Collective's All Women Are Free to Read Their Poetry anthology, 1972)