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A Femifesto for Socialist Surrealism

Fall 2025


A Socialist Surrealist Soirée

Ollin Cafetzin, Aurora, CO

November 2025


Dystopian Times Vol. 4

Denver, CO

Summer 2025


Planting the Seeds for a United Front: Visually Synthesizing Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed with a socialistically surrealized strategy for a United Front

Spring 2025


Fuck You Colonizers: Art Build, Gallery of Resistance, Poetry & Education

by ACABé

Centro del Barrio,

Denver, CO

November 2024


Olive Leaves & Melon Seeds

Young Ancestors Magazine

Denver, CO

October 2024


A Socialist Surrealist Tea Ceremony

with Krystal Barrio

The Rhizome, Portland, OR

October 2024


Anti-Colonial Art Build

by ACABé

Ollin Cafetzin, Aurora, CO

September 2024


The Pan-African Fest of Algiers 1969

Film & Discussion Night

The Rhizome, Portland, OR

August 2024


Comrade Eros, Unsettle All Settlers Art Night

Art Build & Dialogue

The Rhizome, Portland, OR

March 2024


The Hour of Liberation has Arrived

Film & Discussion Night

The Rhizome, Portland, OR

December 2023


Requiem for Liberation

Performance Art with Tlasomikistli

The Rhizome, Portland, OR

October 2023


Our Trancestral Tapestry

A Surrealist Soirée

The Rhizome, Portland, OR

July 2023

Past Events & Publications

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what if artists weren’t only makers of images and words, but co-conspirators in societal transformation? what if we made marvelousness with the masses whilst composting the cruel corporatocracy? what if we organized artists, writers, and culture creators to take part in this transition from image, art, “word to world?” These are the questions that guide socialist surrealism—a synthesis of movements and theories guided by observationg herstoric constellatory connections of creative revolutionary and liberatory practices across the globe.


my poetic practice began in grade school, but it found authenticity in college crafting love letters for friends. gay gifts grew alongside gratitude for gaia, emerging from meditations with Mother Earth. Poly presents precipitated into psychic automatic poems as i pranced across prairies. Then bloomed into collaborative creations through surrealist games. All along the way, we dove deep into histories of resistance and struggles for decolonization and liberation. These studies nurtured insurgent imaginations—visions that poured into drawings, collages, designs, poetry, and paintings. Each piece a symbolic and strategic expression, meant to inspire organizing and kindle cultural revolution.


Since coming to wander by the waters of Wašíŋ Wakpá, i have conducted a localized education and art distribution campaign to combat American exceptionalist propaganda. Beginning with a series of linocut carvings, graphics woven with surrealist quotes—like “Comrade Eros Makes Love & Revolution” by René Depestre and “Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity” from Race Traitor, we stamped them onto political education booklets. These were then distributed in Little Free Libraries across the city. This blossomed into art builds where comrades and community members came together to make agit-prop, watch revolutionary films, share food & drink, receive acudetox, and recite poetry—all free of charge.


Through studies and discussions within an organized anti—colonial colonial book club, i came to create a visual synthesis of Paulo Freire’s "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," paired with a proposal for a local autonomous governance test project. That work is still emerging as the seeds are shared.


This past November, we published and blossomed a femifesto for socialist surrealism within a soirée of communistic camaraderie; an evening abundant in conversations with communal oracles, collages of femme fatale luminaries, quotation cards, dazabaos drawn up to decry dystopia, enchanting libations, transcendent tattoos, poignant poetry, cunty chaos, and so much more marvelousness.


Our inspirations are wide-ranging: the Césaires' surrealist manifestos, the revolutionary aesthetics of The Red Detachment of Women, the fiery poetics of Amiri Baraka, the communizing cultural troupes of Eritrea, the +++. I draw from the Zapatistas, the Black Radical Tradition, Third World feminisms, Transcestral Tapestries, Slavic folklore, and Indigenous resistance movements. I’m in conversation with artists and organizers who know that new worlds are already being born in the cracks of the empire.


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Kill the Amerikkkan Hydra

Build the United Front

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The Embodied Communist

Practice the Mass Line

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🌟📕 Study, Reflect, Create! ♥️✨

🌿🦋 Frolicking with forest friends, engaging in independent and group study, collaboratively creating alongside @dystopiantimesmedia , and sweetly socializing with the @acab.baes ; I’ve found myself, and my art ~ femifestations of socialist surrealism ~ invigorated and illuminated with our communal cultivations. The poem on slide 10 and the art on slide 9, are a couple fruits bore from a sapling whose soil was recently nourished by dialectical discussions and study of FMLN revolutionary Nidia Diaz’s book “I Was Never Alone,” in addition to, “For Our Total Emancipation: The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in Insurgent El Salvador, 1977-1987” by Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra ~ both accessible by scanning the QR codes on slides 7 & 8. 🌀🌼