The Art of Resistance

This bonus series celebrates the revolutionary, unrealistic, and analog joy of manifestos.
In this episode: "I Want a President," by Zoe Leonard, from 1992.
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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.

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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Rebel Yell Creative
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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.
Mentioned in this episode:
Rebel Yell Creative
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at Rebel Yell Creative.com. Sign up for the weekly newsletter and get a free creative workbook!

Season 2 is coming Monday, January 12! New episodes will premiere every other week.
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Expand your art: Art School for Adults
Be a neurodivergent artivist: How to be an Autivist workbook
Get everything! Art Lab Memberships

Books and more from Amy Lee Lillard: Start the year with new fiction, nonfiction, audio fiction, and music!
Story collections: Exile in Guyville and Dig Me Out
Memoir: A Grotesque Animal
Novels: A Woman is a God and Not a Stitch to Wear
Audio fiction: Wyrd Woman podcast
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:
Rebel Yell Creative
To make art that matters, every creative person needs support. Find yours at Rebel Yell Creative.com. Sign up for the weekly newsletter and get a free creative workbook!