“Riot Is Not Diet”: Women’s Graffiti in the Sample of Berlin

Where ever domination exists, modes of resistance also does. This mutual relation between dominance and resistance transforms political arena into conflict for keeping the field. This conflict includes two modes: Space and time. Thus, mechanisms of dominance or resistance try to determine, re-shape and transform the borders of time and space. From this point of view, graffiti in contrast with the orders of city authorities about movement in public spaces appears as a dimension in which ordinary people express themselves in relation with everyday life resistance praxis which produces the conflict for field between the parties. Women as a sub-group in this have a distinct role, because they object to the discourse which specifies “streets” to masculine power. So, this study depends on a field research made up observations and semi-structured interviews I conducted among twenty graffiti writers -five women- in Berlin.