WHAT IS QUIET DEFIANCE?
zine-style essay collections
documenting decades of everyday resistance
Quiet defiance describes the sustained forms of subtle resistance that don’t exactly go unrecognized, but maybe aren’t widely regarded as the powerful, effective methods of cultural change that they are. Revolutions are portrayed as noisy riots. Political identities are supposed to be stated in declarative sentences on social media. Organizers for social change are expected to work with the bullhorn as their primary tool, to paint with the palettes of crowds and campaigns. They’re supposed to be tireless and loud to be ‘effective’. But those who engage in acts of quiet defiance opt out of participating in the attention economy, don’t follow the rituals for the cult of productivity, and reveal capitalist mythologies to be silly with their simple daily deviations. These quiet actions don’t go unnoticed; they are apparent in the immediate families and friend groups and communities these reticent rebels are a part of. These writings describe the shape these ripples take, and perhaps this seditious pamphlet can be a pebble in your pond as well.
This issue introduces the girls I met in the DIY movement of the 90s and the women/mothers/others we became.
This issue describes personal and professional pressures to conform to a category and the reasons I refuse.
This issue is a how-to parenting guide for preparing future generations for capitalism’s collapse.
This issue chronicles the informal constellation of families who’ve created community each summer in the woods of northern Sweden.
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