Manifestos


manifesto A public declaration of intent, policy, aims, etc., as issued by a political party, government, or movement

Our Statements

The Ass Floss Manifesto
By Jen Bilec, Katera Stainbrook, Jill Gray, and Seth Malone. No more thongs for "tweens"! Education our youth on sexuality.
A Hairstyle is Not a Platform: Women, The Media, and Political Participation
By Katherine Ickes, Riley Neugebauer, and Sabina Sully. Women will only be politically equal when they move into positions of political authority.
W(omen)ARC Manifesto
By Jen Knapp, Laura Tereshko, and Courtney Whitehead. A demand for more women on the Allegheny radio station.
Reproductive Rights at Allegheny College: A Manifesto
By Jess Durst, Marcie Langford, Maura McCarthy, and Val Schwartz. Demands that Allegheny campus administrators reconsider the existing campus policies on student reproductive healthcare.
Wurkplace Manifesta
Demand for wurkers rights, on on behalf of ALL womyn, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, marital status, age, appearance, weight, education

Inspirations

BITCH manifesto
By Joreen Written in the fall of 1968, this paper was first published in Notes from the Second Year ed. by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt, 1970
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/bitch/
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~atugce/101/bitch_manifesto.html
 
SCUM Manifesto (Society to Cut Up Men)
By Valerie Solanas, written in 1967
Matriarchy Study Group Edition
 
Redstockings Manifesto
Redstockings was founded in New York City in 1969 (Shulamith Firestone, who coined the group's name, and Ellen Willis). Its name was play on bluestockings, a put~down designation for brainy women. The Redstockings women were radical feminists who saw male supremacy as the oldest, most basic oppression of one human being by another.... Convinced that women's own experiences and feelings were the only valid starting point for feminist analysis, Redstockings was dedicated to consciousness raising. But its members were also strongly action~oriented.
http://fsweb.berry.edu/academic/hass/csnider/berry/hum200/redstockings.htm
 
Combahee River Collective Statement
The CRC is "a Black feminist group in Boston whose name came from the guerrilla action conceptualized and led by Harriet Tubman on June 2, 1863, in the Port Royal region of South Carolina. This action freed more than 750 slaves and is the only military campaign in American history planned and led by a woman." Read more about the CRC
Issued by NY Kitchen Table/Women of Color in 1986
From the Black Feminist Reader. PDF file
Excerpts The Combahee River Collective Statement
 
Third Wave Manifesta: A Thirteen Point Agenda
By Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, from their book ManifestA. Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
Copy handed out in class. PDF version available soon
 
The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx and Friederich Engels, 1848. This statement of policy and activism is a model and reference point for most modern manifestos.
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

 
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