Feminist Utopia Peg-Board, 1.24 x 1.52 m
Persistence Chisels, 1.24 x 1.52 m
Headphones of Refusal, 0.91 x 1.22 m
Workshop Mini-Library, 1.24 x 1.52 m
Anti-Obsolescence Floppy Disc of Feminist Elders, 0.91 x 1.22 m
Guarantee, 0.91 x 1.22 m

A suite of drawings by Hazel Meyer offers one set of tools to help us work our way out of the binds of the present. Originally created as illustrations for an article published in the journal No More Potlucks and co-authored with Cait McKinney, Tools for the Feminist Present (2016) proposes a list of imaginary objects—such as "Persistence Chisels" and "Headphones of Refusal"— necessary for building a collective feminist response to contemporary political conditions. Presented on a pegboard background and mimicking the layout of a hardware catalogue, the drawings pay homage to The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, a 1973 newsprint publication that advertised do-it-yourself strategies for self-care and activism for feminists. These tools are for sharing, passing on skills, lending a hand, getting by. Might the objects, resources, and community pedagogies modelled in the original survival catalog be re-imagined from a post-Internet moment and from a position of looking both backwards and forwards in time?