BE CONTRA

BE- CONTRA-: A 21st century prefix femifesta Change is not just a thing we want. Change is a doing. Grammar is not just a thing we learn. Bits of words make our world. We can change imperatives to infinitives. To change infinitives to happenings, only happenings are not just things, they are a doing too. Changing bits of words to change the world, as a preter-form-ative gesture of intervention. Casting off our fear of rewriting. Rewriting to make things new. Taking on old forms in order to change and make them new. Taking on a manifesto and feminizing it. A manifesto is already a prefixing; a movement is already a prefixing. Language is not a thing but a force to be channelled-challenged-changed. Changing the order. Changing the syntax. Changing the shapes and changing the axes. Reversing the hierarchy. Working in the past-present-future simultaneously. Sticking bits of words together to make new ones. Being irreverent. Being contrary. Playing in order to be serious. Using NONsense to MAKE sense.

Prefix the systems you live in!

BE-CONTRA-PARA-POLY-PRE-RE-QUE-IM- INTER-DE-PRO-MAT-ES-EX DIS

Be the BE…… of becoming before between Be CONTRA- be contradictory be contrary Be PARA- be a paradox, be a para-academic

Be polyvocal, polyglottal, polysemic Polychromatize the PRE- of precede, pre-empt Prefix the RE- of revolve reorder rewrite recycle refuse Reuse the QUE of queering and querying and questioning Make IMperfections stage INTERventions Use TRANSreason and TRANSversal thinking to TRANSform the DE of DEconstruct DE-familiarise PRO-cesses of love in MAT-erialising MAT-ernalising and MATtering Love in order to EStrange Love in order to EXpress DIS-identify. and DIS-O-BEY!