Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils

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Combining short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of 30 female activists, Anarchists, feminists, freedom-fighters and visionaries, this is an invaluable, genre-crossing resource guaranteed to educate and inspire. Drawing on backgrounds as disparate as zine-making, art, activism and academia, New Zealand's all-female Queen of the Neighbourhood Collective has combined forces to create its first book, a subversive portrait history of women who have spent their lives fighting, often violently, for what they believe in.

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"What you hold in your hands is a lethal weapon. Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils is a threat to the status quo and a dangerous wake-up call to every person who has ever dared to think for themselves. ... I believe the words and art in this book have the power to mobilize a revolution. Rise up and let's join them now!"
--Wendy-O Matik, author of Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships

"This book cunningly uses the modern style of stencilling to make icons of some key figures in feminist movement. Readers are invited to spread their images across t-shirts, walls, and pavements to let the world know who really deserves to be remembered."
--Gareth Shute, author of Hip Hop Music in Aotearoa

"The beauty and simplicity of message is stark in this zine. It is lovingly earnest with its handcrafted cut and pastes. The snippets are well-worded, the quotes cleverly chosen. The silhouettes of fearless females are striking. Overwhelmingly, one is left with a sense of the near universal absence of images of revolutionary women. From now on, every time I see a Che Guevara portrait, I will wonder about his many, unheralded and invisible sisters."
--Karlo Mila, author of Dream Fish Floating

"What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present."
--Emory Douglas, Former Black Panther Party Member, Revolutionary Artist & Minister of Culture

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Queen of the Neighbourhood is an all-women collective of writers, researchers, editors, and graphic designers.