Chicago Art World: 2014: Fed Up Fest @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

August 4, 2014

2014: Fed Up Fest @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

Above: SAIC Fiber and Material Studies senior Sky Cubacub, in signature chainmaille, candid at Fed Up Fest on July 26, 2014.

Fed Up Fest
July 25-27, 2014
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL

http://fedupfestchicago.org/

http://coprosperity.org/

"FED UP FEST is a three day, all ages, DIY music and workshop festival showcasing and celebrating queer and transgender voices in punk communities. We are a collectively run group that actively opposes racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, capitalism, and all other fucked up "isms" and "phobias" at macro and micro levels. FED UP FEST is inspired from the short lived direct action coalition FED UP QUEERS (FUQ) that existed in New York city from 1989-1990 that grew out of the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power.

By organizing FED UP FEST we hope to engage our communities in a dialogue that will work to confront and challenge the perpetuation of oppression and abuse in our scenes, and to help create stronger and more sustainable bonds between and across radical queer and punk communities. Due to underlying homophobic and transphobic tendencies, the presence of queer and trans people in punk scenes is so frequently a site of volatility. By solidifying our presence and voices through solidarity and with consistent radical frameworks, that center marginalized voices, we can help confront the oppressive attitudes that pervade our scenes on structural and personal levels. As a collective, we firmly believe that punk should be a site of resistance to shitty mainstream values. We hope that FED UP FEST creates a space of defiance, empowerment, pogoing and change."

Quotation above from: http://fedupfestchicago.org/about.html