Blogs Sep 27, 2012 at 10:11 am

Grrrl Army Takes Over Tubs in the U-District

Cienna Madrid
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Can I say that I miss the coat hanger abortion art piece? That was amazing.
TheMisanthrope on September 27, 2012 at 10:18 AM Report this
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"For instance, I give consent through a series of short, coyote-like yips accompanied by the swelling of my vaginal walls. (Unusual, I know, but as my mother is fond of saying, I was raised by a pack of wolves.)"

With each passing day I love you a little more, Cienna.
yelahneb on September 27, 2012 at 10:19 AM Report this
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Props for leaving the marked parking space intact.. ;D
Beetlecat on September 27, 2012 at 10:22 AM Report this
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I'm reminded of Antioch College, and how they mandated its students to give consent for sex EXACTLY as described: "Will you have sex with me?" "Yes, I will have sex with you." Anything else would be construed as rape.
Matt from Denver on September 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM Report this
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I WANT TO ENLIST IN GRRL ARMY!!!

sorry for shouting, but I DO... WHERE IS THE ENLISTMENT OFFICE ANYWAY, dang it?
merry on September 27, 2012 at 10:47 AM Report this
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@5-

seattlegrrrlarmy.tumblr.com

also on facebook

we regularly post upcoming actions
GLITUR_Chad on September 27, 2012 at 10:57 AM Report this
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Someone busted out one of the panels in the front there. Probably a long time ago, but left it open now. I went exploring in there with my headlamp. Bunch of spraying, sexo, and needles. Felt like an archeologist exploring the old wreckage. Surprised someone hasn't burned it down, on purpose or accident. Probably what the owner is hoping for.
Lew Siffer on September 27, 2012 at 11:19 AM Report this
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Cienna, I don't think your being cynical at all.

If anybody believes that we can eliminate predators from humanity they're under Star Trek The Next Generation levels of utopian delusion.

But we can, and we have, made the world a lot safer - bit by bit- for women. And that's something to feel hopeful about.
tkc on September 27, 2012 at 11:38 AM Report this
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@5 not sure, but they follow me on twitter.
Will in Seattle on September 27, 2012 at 12:06 PM Report this
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@9 thoroughly useless grandstanding post. Say, did they help you create COSTCO CHICKEN MEME!
*Snicker*
Dr_Awesome on September 27, 2012 at 12:19 PM Report this
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Am I missing the outraged post about the SPD's remarks regarding alleged Seattle rapist attorney Danford Grant's behavior, calling his alleged serial raping "[suggestive of] compulsive and uncontrollable behavior?" I would have expected Slog and the Slutwalkers to be all over that one.

Kiro has mentioned that remark in their reporting since yesterday, and I can't believe none of the radio hosts have even questioned it. How can you just not be able to control yourself from raping?
virginia mason on September 27, 2012 at 12:34 PM Report this
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There's only one reason why anyone would follow Will in Seattle on Twitter: lulz. Like when he's retweeting the hottest news from KOMO as if it was state secrets, or when he's hitting on various almost celebrities who don't know he exists.
Fnarf on September 27, 2012 at 12:47 PM Report this
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I don't ask "Will you have sex with me now?" per se, but I do ask "Permission to come aboard?"

You're welcome to use it.
sugar7898 on September 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM Report this
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Only Americans would need lawyers in the room to prepare them for their love making.
on September 27, 2012 at 3:06 PM Report this
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@12 riiight. The majority of people who follow me are people who do stuff, not whiny b.t.h.s like Fnarf or the fake adbots I report as spam.

Whatever, dude. Someone asked, and I happened to know that they had just started following me. Which reminds me, have to report a couple new spambots.
Will in Seattle on September 27, 2012 at 4:18 PM Report this
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Aside from painting shit pink, have they done anything else? I saw something about fighting back, but I figure they realized that there wasn't actually much out there to fight back against.

'Rape culture' is like the satanic panic of the upper-middle class female nowadays.

You're not much of an army if all you do is pat yourself on the back and paint shit pink.
TortoiseTurtle on September 27, 2012 at 4:32 PM Report this
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@ 6 - THANK YOU

merry on September 27, 2012 at 4:40 PM Report this
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@13 - Ha ha. Good line...
Soupytwist on September 27, 2012 at 4:41 PM Report this
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@ 10, 12 - THANK YOU
merry on September 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM Report this
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Yes! Always get consent first! Unless it's about vandalizing a building! Then just go for it!
on September 27, 2012 at 5:53 PM Report this
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@15: Gawd, baby jeezus cries because you sre so stupid.
Someone asked, in a humorous and not-very-serious way how to get ahold of the grrl army

You posted an inanely vapid reply that offered no useful information, and showed your self-serving twat personality.

Go pester Ellen Barkin about your COSTCO CHICKENS, you twat.

P.s., I wasted three minutes glancing at your tweets. Fnarf was right.
Dr_Awesome on September 27, 2012 at 7:49 PM Report this
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@20 - because our bodies and abandoned properties are somehow equivalent? You "hates hypocrisy" and apparently also hate logic. You should probably think long and hard about the very significant differences between our SELVES and someone's BUILDING.
Benj on September 27, 2012 at 8:07 PM Report this
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My only concern is that all this very visible vandalism will give the cops a good reason to bust up some houses/women looking for dangerous literature.
Theodore Gorath on September 28, 2012 at 5:43 AM Report this
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It's....NOT....vandalism....

Tubs is free space, hence all the spray paint all over it. The wall on 11th and Pine was as well.

Cops have actually approached us while doing these actions several times... just to voice their support. That actually kind of makes me feel gross, because I hate cops. It does, however, lead me to believe that maybe we weren't breaking any laws.
GLITUR_Chad on September 28, 2012 at 9:17 AM Report this
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It's interesting that given all the lip service to rape by this paper, no one has offered any kind of opinion about the Danford Grant case and the media coverage surrounding it. What's the deal? It's a huge story, and a perfect example of white male privilege being used to the utmost.

I don't want to agree with #16, but if girls want to march in their fucking panties ostensibly for women's rights and rape education, shouldn't they also be backing that shit up by, you know, using their brains to write a fucking editorial piece about this story? Or is would that be too unsexy and confrontational?
on September 28, 2012 at 10:57 AM Report this
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Stop fu@$ing up art spots! Seattle artists only have a few precious spots in which to share their talent. You idiots writing RAPE only gets them taken away from us! Go actually protest or do something beneficial and leave the art spots alone!
on October 8, 2012 at 12:50 PM Report this
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@26 street art is ephemeral by its very nature. If you want to keep your art forever, paint it on a fucking canvas. If you paint it on the street, it will be painted over sooner or later, that's just how street art works. If you don't understand or accept this, then get out of the game.
antiuser on October 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM Report this
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@ A (27) Its not about keeping your piece up, its about there being an available venue to display it! These people would do a lot more good volunteering for a cause rather than some vapid display of teenage angst posing as art. Street artist and graffiti artist understand that you dont go and draw a giant dick on a "free wall" and act surprised when that venue is taken away. You want to change the world? GOOD! Grow the fuck up and actually do something that matters! Writing "Fuck Rape Culture" 6 ft tall only serves to inflate the ego of the person slapping it up there and pisses off everyone else.
on October 10, 2012 at 8:00 PM Report this
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@28 the same could be said for any tag anywhere. Who said that once Grrrl Army hits up a spot it's gone forever? Tubs is still there, the poster wall is still there. I'm sure they would take no issue with their stuff being covered up by street art over time. Poster Giant though, that's a different story. They can go eat a bag of dicks (deluxe).
antiuser on October 14, 2012 at 6:21 PM Report this

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