Explore every episode of the podcast The Art of Resistance
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| The Art of Manifestos | 22 Jun 2026 | 00:21:00 | |
Today: Five manifestos from radical groups across time and mission. 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. _____ Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| The Category is: The Art of Ballroom and Drag | 08 Jun 2026 | 00:28:26 | |
How did this particular form of queer art and culture come to be? How did queer people across centuries find solace and support in these underground and public scenes? And how did the magnificent art of ballroom, and the houses that formed around it, create a powerful form of resistance that continues to defy anyone who tries to erase it? 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. _____ Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Apartheid Art: Afrapix and South African Artists, 1950s-80s | 25 May 2026 | 00:26:05 | |
How did artists empower silenced people? How did photographers use access and international press to tell the truth about a country’s atrocities? And how did individuals, and groups like Afrapix, defy the crushing machine of apartheid in South Africa, and send the government tumbling down? 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. _____ Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Rock Rebellion: The Plastic People of the Universe in Soviet Czechoslovakia, 1970s | 11 May 2026 | 00:22:41 | |
How did a band in Soviet Czechoslovakia kick off a revolt against repression? How did young Czech people in the 1970s look to the counter culture of the U.S. for inspiration? And what can we learn from the band The Plastic People of the Universe, and their role in the Velvet Revolution, about the role of art in 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. _____ Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Eating Fire: The Lesbian Avengers, 1991+ | 09 Mar 2026 | 00:24:19 | |
How did a group of women change the narrative for LGBTQ representation and equality in the early 90s? How did street performance and circus acts turn the invisible visible? And what can we learn from the Lesbian Avengers and fierce pussy about making 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. _____ Mentioned in the episode:
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| “Look at it”: Dorothea Lange's photography and the Japanese Internment, 1930s-40s | 23 Feb 2026 | 00:24:31 | |
How did one woman take pictures so powerful that they were both celebrated and banned? How did a worker with unprecedented access create a living visual library that showed our country’s desperate injustice? And what can we learn from Dorothea Lange and her photos of migrants in the 1930s, and incarcerated Japanese-Americans in the 1940s, about making 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. Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Sewing the truth: Arpilleras in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1989 | 09 Feb 2026 | 00:27:59 | |
How did handsewn crafts help desperate women fight back against a dictatorship? How did communal creative groups empower one another? And what can we learn from the arpilleras from Chile about how to make art as resistance, today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Working 9 to 5: A Movie and a Movement, 1980 | 26 Jan 2026 | 00:25:06 | |
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. _____ Get full episode transcript and sources at RebelYellCreative.com. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Singing the Terrible Truth: Billie Holiday and "Strange Fruit," 1939 | 12 Jan 2026 | 00:22:14 | |
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. _____ 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: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Speaking the Word: The art of Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey | 01 Dec 2025 | 00:16:08 | |
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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Introducing...Performing the Revolution | 24 Nov 2025 | 00:46:22 | |
Performing the Revolution comes from the team at Radical Evolution. Check out the first episode here, then listen to the full four-episode series in your favorite podcast player. In this episode: Meet Jana Natya Manch aka Janam, one of India's storied street theatre companies. We follow their journey from one of their most crucial, catalyzing and tragic moments in the 1980's, all the way through to the work they make today. And big thanks to Remoy Phillip and Meropi Peponides for reaching out, and for creating this wonderful show! _____ 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: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| B-Boy Rebellion: The art of Chuy Renteria | 17 Nov 2025 | 00:10:22 | |
In this bonus series we're looking at modern artists using art as a tool of resistance. Today: Chuy Renteria. Connect with Chuy at chuyrenteria.bsky.social and Little Village magazine. 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| “Sacklers Lie, Thousands Die”: The art of Nan Goldin and P.A.I.N. | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:09:54 | |
This is a special bonus episode of The Art of Resistance, focusing on modern artists creating writing, music, and more to resist the status quo. What can we learn from the story of Nan Goldin and Prescription Addiction Intervention Now, or P.A.I.N., about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Hexing the Patriarchy: The art of W.I.T.C.H., 1968+ | 06 Oct 2025 | 00:21:54 | |
How did ancient and primal fears provide the perfect imagery for women’s rights? How did radical feminists use theater and artistic play to channel their anger and make an impact? And what can we learn from the Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, or W.I.T.C.H., about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Indigenous truths: The art of Zitkála-Šá, 1900-1936 | 29 Sep 2025 | 00:25:31 | |
How did writing empower a community? How did truth-telling defy the powers that be, and embolden generations to come? And what can we learn from Zitkála-Šá about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Un Encuentro Para Libertad: Chicana Artivistas making art with the Zapatistas, 1997 | 22 Sep 2025 | 00:26:54 | |
How did a creative workshop across borders and across languages further a revolution? How did music, one-act plays, poems, murals and more connect humans more thoroughly than anything else? And what can we learn from the Chicana art scene in East LA in the 90s and their alliance with the indigenous Zapatistas in Mexico about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Writers underground: Soviet Samizdat, 1967-1982 | 15 Sep 2025 | 00:24:03 | |
How did writing threaten the Russian status quo? How did hand-typed publications of facts, passed hand to hand, make a massive dent in the USSR regime? And what can we learn from Samizdat about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Black pride and revolt: Emory Douglas and the art of the Black Panthers, 1967-1979 | 08 Sep 2025 | 00:23:30 | |
How did illustrations embolden a community? How did caricatures, portraits, and parody empower a movement and terrify the FBI? And what can we learn from the art of Emory Douglas and the Black Panther newspaper about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Queer surrealists vs. Nazis: The art of Cahun & Moore, 1940-1944 | 01 Sep 2025 | 00:22:46 | |
How did small, anonymous art and writing make a dent in the Nazi machine? How did playing on our assumptions about what older women do help them resist for years? And what can we learn from Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Punk feminists and teen girls: The art of Riot Grrrl, 1990-1996 | 01 Sep 2025 | 00:22:57 | |
How did making music serve as resistance to the status quo? How did attending shows, making zines, and even just talking help girls across the U.S. fight hopelessness? And what can we learn from Riot Grrrl about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Making art in a plague: Gran Fury and ACT UP, 1987-1992 | 01 Sep 2025 | 00:27:22 | |
How did a handful of artists kick start and script a seismic shift in AIDS awareness and policy? How did their creative skills drive a movement? And what can we learn from the story of Gran Fury about how to make art as resistance today and tomorrow? 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. Mentioned in this episode: Get show notes + more art as resistance! Visit artofresistance.space for a free weekly newsletter about art as resistance, plus episode show notes, video, and audio. | |||
| Coming September 1: The Art of Resistance | 24 Jul 2025 | 00:02:27 | |
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. | |||