If you’re not a feminist but believe in women’s rights, the “How to Be a Fabulous Feminist” poster may change your mind-about calling yourself a feminist, that is.
With advice such as “Decorate yourself anyway you like,” and “Visualize perfect birth control,” the poster’s creator, Helen Grieco, hopes to “re-identify feminism as a tribe.”
“Feminism (has become) a dirty word that a lot of women didn’t want to identify with,” she says. “And I did this poster to get women to say, `Hey, I am a feminist,’ and to be proud of it.”
Grieco, a former executive director of the Northern California chapter of the National Organization for Women who now runs her own self-defense school in the Bay Area and has a master’s degree in feminist therapy from Antioch University, created the poster with Bay Area artist SARK.
Some of the poster’s more provocative statements: “Praise rebel spinsters” and “Support bad girls.”
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“All our lives we were told to be good and do what we’re told,” Grieco says. “Bad girls say `I’m doing it anyway.’ “
“The Hillary-ization of the nation,” has helped fuel the brisk sales of the poster, says Lisa Ryers, of Ten Speed Press, which distributes the poster.
They cost $3.50, plus $2.50 for shipping and handling. Call 800-841-2665 to order.