Documenting Dissent

This exhibition features a selection of feminist and lesbian programs which ran on WBAI radio in New York amidst the second wave of feminism around the 1970s. These selected programs form feminist networks that explain, document, and grapple with women’s experiences of violence under the patriarchy. 

The first section examines where instances of patriarchal violence often occur and the difficulty in reporting said instances of violence. The second section underlines the way the patriarchy is structured upon violence against women, the naturalization of this violence as a fact of life, and the violent transmisogynistic and transphobic rhetoric that follows. The last section is dedicated to anger and its transformative properties in the liberation of women, specifically focusing on criminalized and incarcerated women.