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Low-tech and low budget, the collective responded to the urgency of those years, using readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, their own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs.

Originally fierce pussy was composed of a fluid and often shifting cadre of dykes including Pam Brandt, Jean Carlomusto, Donna Evans, Alison Froling, and Suzanne Wright.

One of fierce pussy's more well-known projects was the use of wheat-pasted posters and crack-and-peel stickers that were interspersed throughout New York City.

In addition, their other projects included re-designing the bathroom at the Gay and Lesbian Center, a greeting card campaign, a video public service announcement, a moving billboard truck, and renaming the street signs along the New York City Gay Pride route in 1991 after prominent lesbian heroines.

In addition, fierce pussy contributed their display to the White Columns featured exhibit ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS crisis, 1987-1993.

[10] In 2018, fierce pussy presented a year-long, site-specific installation entitled "AND SO ARE YOU" at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City.

[14] Posters and documentation of fierce pussy's collective work were on view in a "living archive"[15] alongside works from the members' individual studio practices in arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified.

[22][23] The exhibit was curated by Jo-ey Tang[24] Their work is in the International Center of Photography collection in New York City.

9 posters in windows with childhood photographs and text reclaiming anti-queer slurs
AND SO ARE YOU on view at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City from 2018 - 2019