It’s Internat’l Women’s Day

Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères, 1969

HABITS OF DEFERENCE CAN BE BROKEN, AND IT IS UP TO WRITERS TO BREAK THEM. SUBMISSION CAN BE REFUSED; AND I REFUSE IT.

// Andrea Dworkin, 1995 preface to Intercourse, 1987

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Series, 1973

I WANT TO SHOVE A FINGER INTO THE SILENCE AND MAKE IT VOMIT.

// Kim Hyesoon, “A Death as a Theme for a Meal” from Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers, 2008

Jenny Holzer, text from Lustmord, 1993