Artist Angela Davis Fegan debuted her Lavender Menace poster project during Dyke March 2015. She created jumpsuits covered with words like “butch” and “womyn,” and she designed and distributed letterpress-printed signs saying things like “We want agency beyond the dance floor” and “We are the queers you fear, the ones who riot, fuck, and vote.”
So far Fegan’s brought the concept to Cole’s and Danny’s Tavern. Yesterday’s project took over the bathrooms at the Empty Bottle. Along with covering the walls with her woodtype-printed posters, Fegan stenciled the question “How can music amplify resistance?” on the wall and encouraged others to answer in permanent marker. Responses ranged from “speak for the silent” to “question everything” to “making public space for different voices.”
