The Art of Resistance

Amy Lee Lillard
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A podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. From Gran Fury to Riot Grrrl, from Emory Douglas to Zitkála-Šá, from Samizdat to W.I.T.C.H., we examine how artists have used their work to resist, and what we can learn from them to make art as resistance today. Sign up at RebelYellCreative.com for art, resistance news, and creative tools and support!

  1. Jun 22

    The Art of Manifestos

    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 Art of Manifestos

  2. Jun 8

    The Category is: The Art of Ballroom and Drag

    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.

    The Category is: The Art of Ballroom and Drag

  3. May 25

    Apartheid Art: Afrapix and South African Artists, 1950s-80s

    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.

    Apartheid Art: Afrapix and South African Artists, 1950s-80s

  4. May 11

    Rock Rebellion: The Plastic People of the Universe in Soviet Czechoslovakia, 1970s

    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.

    Rock Rebellion: The Plastic People of the Universe in Soviet Czechoslovakia, 1970s

  5. Mar 9

    Eating Fire: The Lesbian Avengers, 1991+

    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 p***y 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: Watch the Lesbian Avengers eating fireDownload fierce p*ssy posters and artGet 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+

  6. Feb 23

    “Look at it”: Dorothea Lange's photography and the Japanese Internment, 1930s-40s

    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.

    “Look at it”: Dorothea Lange's photography and the Japanese Internment, 1930s-40s

  7. Feb 9

    Sewing the truth: Arpilleras in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1989

    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.

    Sewing the truth: Arpilleras in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1989

  8. Jan 26

    Working 9 to 5: A Movie and a Movement, 1980

    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.

    Working 9 to 5: A Movie and a Movement, 1980
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A podcast about using writing, music, and all kinds of art to resist the status quo. From Gran Fury to Riot Grrrl, from Emory Douglas to Zitkála-Šá, from Samizdat to W.I.T.C.H., we examine how artists have used their work to resist, and what we can learn from them to make art as resistance today. Sign up at RebelYellCreative.com for art, resistance news, and creative tools and support!

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  • Creator
    Amy Lee Lillard
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Amy Lee Lillard
  • Show Website
    The Art of Resistance

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