Post Colonial Girl, 1998,
2,000 free black + white 10 page zines, visually manipulated from a Little Colonial Girl Paper Doll booklet purchased at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia's Old City for $1.00

Post Colonial Girl is a serious joke, a sarcastic transformation of mass marketing's representation of colonial history as a beautiful patriotic game into our Post Colonial reality of exploitation, corporate greed, and evil. Originally, Priscilla was staging a pageant for her class based on costumes from the various countries that colonized America. She needed help in choosing her outfit. Now Priscilla is a junior CEO speculating on emerging international markets and needs assistance with the clothes of her imperialist predecessors. She closes oil contracts in Nigeria during Ken Saro Wiwa's funeral dressed in Dutch colonies 1650's attire, profits from prison-like work conditions in Vietnam in her pretty pink French colonies 1700's gown, and confers with a law firm to break the Communications Workers' strike in Philadelphia. Guillotine not included.

Printed at Paper Crane Press, I.U. 450, Industrial Workers of the World, Post Colonial Girl is a gift to all those joined in the struggle that Frederick Douglass succinctly describes, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and those will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

 Post Colonial Girl is a small gesture of words and blows in the spirit of Guillermo Gomez Pena's toast,
                                                "standing on the map of my political desires,
                                                 I toast to a borderless future."