Welcome Anti-fascist Aunties!
Auntie Power
Aunts & aunties are beloved, revered and feared.
Aunties exist across cultures and span the gender galaxy. Fierce and loving. Badass, eccentric, tough, bringers of comfort, warmth, baked goods and life guidance.
Aunties extend safety. They carry weight.
Aunties tend and defend life.
What is your auntie style?
What is antifascism?
Fascism is the control of society based on fear, authoritarianism, worship of a dictatorial male leader posing as national savior. A totalitarian vision of the world that suppresses all criticism with militarized violence in the name of racist, aggressive nationalism.
Anti-fascism is fighting and loving against this.
Fight fascism the way you would protect a kid you love.
We are Auntifa.
Anti-fascism needs u.
Call to Aunties
Let’s shine all our anti-fascist auntie lights.
Your creative brilliance can be featured here in an emerging community art space for folks to appreciate and circulate, to inspire and fortify.
Visual designs, videos, writing, humor, stories, political education, drawings, photos.
Tag us on instagram @weareauntifa or email weareauntifa@gmail.com so we can display & amplify your rad auntieness.
Support frontline resistance + spread joy
Right now, the Twin Cities’ first line of defense against the ICE agents occupying their city and kidnapping neighbors is people powered, community-run rapid response networks. An all-volunteer crew of rapid responders, dispatchers and coordinators keeps this network running around the clock, facing doxxing and intimidation to keep most vulnerable neighbors safe. Many of these volunteers are themselves impacted by ICE presence, low-income and/or housing insecure.
With each hat, shirt and sticker you purchase in our shop, the proceeds will support rapid response volunteers to cover rent, bills and other basic needs so they can continue to do this essential work.
Historic context: the Auntifa beanie is red to be in solidarity with the Melt the ICE hat, which is based on the Norwegian Protest Hat. In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of heir country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal and punishable by law to wear, make or distribute.