The exhibition HQ is now finished and the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance have gone underground for a while. Thank you to everyone who visited and special thanks to all those women who came and wrote on the table. Its looking amazing and now almost completely covered in words. I am saving the last space for
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This is the last week of the show and I am glad. Tomorrow is the last Saturday. Hallelujah! I now realise I am not cut out for being a gallerist and next time will stick to chairmaking and general all round troublemaking. I think it will be much safer for everyone. Most people who have
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SPR TRAILER from Armchair destructivists on Vimeo.
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HQ opened on Wednesday evening with the age old battle cry “ Bring on the gin!” and ended up in a happy mess of people rolling about on the giant celebration cake making stupid jokes about the Great British Bakeoff. I believe that at some point a boy in green high heels danced on the
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Miss Pokeno and The Sisters Of Perpetual Resistance are now purveying disturbing goods, essential tools for Sisters, and Instruments of Nuisance from our online shop. Selling big muffs, lipstick-red wrecking bars and luxury riot scarves. Just in time for Xmas too. Instruments of Nuisance are also available from HQ at 1 Doyce Street, SE1 OEU
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The conversation goes something like this: Friend… Oh he’s just a fucking CUNT… Me…I hate that you use the word Cunt in that way. Cunt is a good thing…Cunt is a friendly word for my vagina..its a soft…sexy…served me well sort of word….I don’t like that you use it in a derogatory abusive way. Friend…oh
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The last of the Riot Slut chairs has been nailed and stitched, the satin soldier chairs stand tall against the wall – two are naked still awaiting black linen bags to cover them. The glass hammers have arrived sleek from the kilns and word has it that a perfume is on its way from the
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Miss Pokeno & the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance present HQ an installation to honour feminist troublemakers 1 Doyce Street London SE1 0EU 14th November 2013 to 13th December 2013 Open to the public Fridays and Saturdays 10am – 5pm Private views by appointment Contact: bird@misspokeno.com 0207 928 9996
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Last stitches for Riot Slut chairs. They look like fallen women hauled back from a wild night all dressed up in their brightest satins and velvets. We wil make a barricade from them in celebration of young women activists.
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Found this article (PDF) in the New York Times archive, describing how much mischief could be mustered with a big muff 101 years ago. The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance will be forever indebted to the Suffragettes.
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