Piss America is near completion - currently designing and laying out the book!

UPDATE: As of March 2023, we have pissed on all fifty states of the United horror show!!!!!!!!!

We are laying out the book and figuring out the next steps…

We are still taking submissions and will include a patchwork of pissing beauties in the book who aren’t necessarily representing states.

Stayed Tuned Comrades…

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After deletion three more times by Instagram (it is so unfortunate that Instagram and the meta jerk-off nexus is still the most far and wide way of connecting with new people), we are still nearly complete! I do not post very often on the gram because I don’t want to be drained by the constant censorship and threat of deletion. But we are still there @piss_america___

And I am so excited that publication is on the horizon.

And we need this book now more than ever because it will direct fund abortion in the states with nasty bans like Texas, and several others.

I can’t wait to see this book.

Piss Arizona

UPDATE : Instagram caves to fascist trolls and deletes mother account. Follow @piss_america_pageant !

On March 11, 2020 @piss_america was deleted by Instagram. This censorship occurred as a result of an organized attack by several self-identified fascists, many of whom were breaking Instagram’s anti-hate and anti-bullying guidelines, yet were not removed themselves. One of our posts had over 100 nasty comments.

Many feminist art accounts were harassed on March 8 (International Women’s Day) by these people and Instagram failed to recognized this ideological attack against feminist womxn and queers. I reported dozens of accounts and wrote a letter that remains unanswered.

We are now at @piss_america___

Please follow us here as we regroup our community and adapt to the visual artifice I am using to ensure this can not happen again.

Moving forward, I’ve decided to co-opt bright colorful dots inspired by John Baldessari’s series, placed them over the crotches and asses of our beloved Pissers. I miss the more brazen imagery (which will appear in the book) but am aiming to glean a new aesthetic in conversation with Baldessari’s series. Who knows what will come of this…perhaps a spin off zine of dot pics?

John Baldessari, Blue Boy (with Yellow Boy: One with Hawaiian Tie, One in Dark), 1989

@piss_america moves to Instagram

In order to attract more pissers and spread our content like spores, we’ve moved the blog to Instagram. Folx have been sending in photos from all over the cuntry, photos of womxn, enby, femmes folx pissing on symbols of the establishment. Most are hilarious. For a good time, follow us @piss_america

We also bring in updates on abortion rights and access, detail abortion restrictions in each US state, and connect with abortion warriors around the globe. And of course, bring you images of piss art through history.

Piss Tennessee

Regina José Galindo: Piedra

Regina José Galindo (b. 1974) was born in Guatemala City, where she now continues to work. She is a visual artist who specializes in performance art. Her work explores universal ethics implications, social injustice, racial and gender discrimination, and other abuses of power. About her piece, Piedra, Galindo states, “the history of humanity has remained inscribed on the bodies of Latin American women. On their bodies— conquered, marked, enslaved, objectified, exploited, and tortured—one can read the terrible stories of power and struggle that shape our past. Bodies are fragile only in their appearance. It is the female body that has survived conquest and slavery. Like a stone, it has stored the hatred and rancor of memory in order to transform it into energy and life.”

From Piedra:

Ellen Jong: Pees on Earth

Excerpt from a conversation between Ellen Jong and Annie Sprinkle:

EJ: Do you think there’s expression in pornography?

AS: A friend of mine calls it “by the people for the people.” It’s creative and people are expressive but there’s highbrow and there’s lowbrow. Porn is like folk art.

EJ: Wow, folk art . . . I can relate to this idea. My pee photographs come from instinct with no pretense. I was shooting everything around me including my own body, and of an act I was already doing several times a day. After shooting them more and more, they got better and better—using my own arm’s distance from my body like a tripod with a third eye. The bathroom is one of my most private places. I took down my bathroom walls and brought my sanctuary outdoors. What is your sanctuary?

AS: I’ve always loved floating in water. They don’t call me Sprinkle for nothing. The bathtub is certainly one of my sanctuaries. But I grew up in Los Angeles with a swimming pool in my backyard. I was happy in the pool. And I admit, I peed in the pool. Yes, the bathroom is a special place.

EJ: Have you ever peed in public, in the street?

AS: Hasn’t everyone? Often! I usually wear dresses without panties, so if I have to pee really badly, I can squat on a lawn with the dress covering my legs and I’ll go through my purse pretending like I’m looking for something—I could pee right in the middle of the lawn in front of City Hall and no one would have a clue. It’s fun and sometimes necessary.

From Ellen Jong’s Pees on Earth:

Pissed: On the Piss Based Works of Cassils and Leah McPherson

Cassils's work comes from rage. PISSED, the centerpiece of their exhibition “Monu-mental” at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York this past autumn, testifies to that anger. Exhibited as a massive glass cube containing two hundred gallons of the artist’s urine surrounded by the containers used to collect and carry it, PISSED addressed a transgender political struggle via a formal language at once confrontational and uncompromisingly austere. The work was sparked by the Trump administration’s spiteful, reactionary decision to rescind an Obama-era executive order that endorsed the rights of transgender students to use the bathroom of the gender they know themselves to be. In response, Cassils began collecting all the urine they passed since that date. The resulting installation offered a defiant material presence that resists the ways in which “privacy” has been weaponized against transgender lives.

From Cassils's "PISSED":

Leah McPherson was born in 1984 in Sydney. McPherson has had solo exhibitions at Firstdraft, Chalkhorse and Mori Gallery. Recently, she has performed at Peloton, PSH Gallery and the Oxford Arts Cube. McPherson’s 2005 film “The Quiet Section” has traveled to 700IS, Experimental Film Festival in Iceland, Örebro Video Art Festival in Sweden, The Alsager Arts Centre in Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom and The ASU Media Art Center in Arizona, U.S.A. McPherson is a co-director at Sydney's Artist Run Space '55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville NSW 2204 AU'. She studied at Sydney College of the Arts including an exchange in Paris at École Nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Atelier Annette Messager. She is currently undertaking her Master of Fine Arts by research.

From Leah McPherson's "Untitled (flung piss experiment)":

Pissing on Patriarchy: Kiki Smith and Jia Chang

Standing Up Peeing is a series of photographs depicting nude bodies peeing while standing up. In six photos, Jia Chang depicts models performing the very banal, humanly function of urination in gracefully awkward postures. While the pretext of anatomy has labeled these poses "masculine", the depiction of female bodies mimicking them suggests a brute objection to the social constructs that equate them as "male" in the first place. Here, the female body is celebrated rather than shamed, praised for versatility rather than discredited for its "otherness". The viewer is involuntarily made voyeur as they gaze directly into the artist's invitation to criticize the social structures and taboos that aim to hide and exclude within our modern society.

From Jia Chang's "Standing Up Peeing":

Concerned with interior biological processes of waste and regeneration, Kiki Smith subverts the Western sculptural tradition of the eroticized female form. Here the un-idealized life-size body of a woman, molded in sweet-smelling beeswax, crouches on the gallery floor with sparkling yellow beads streaming out behind her. The earthy subject is tempered by its delicate materials — wax and glass. The bowed head and folded arms suggest an introspective and vulnerable state, as our voyeuristic encounter with the crouched woman quietly insists we consider what constitutes improper behavior in communal space: is it the figure who publicly displays a private act, or the viewer who violates that privacy?

Kiki Smith's "Pee Body":

Dasha Ilina on Cathy Akers and Sophie Rickett

In Dasha Ilina's brief introduction to the works of Helen Chadwick, Cathy Akers and Sophie Rickett ("Feminist Artists Changing the World"), Ilina looks at Akers' "Pee Performances" and Rickett's "Pissing Women" as an attempt to challenge traditional ideas of dominance (Rickett) and question our relations to nature (Akers).

From Sophy Rickett's "Pissing Women":

From Cathy Akers' "Pee Performances":

Whether you look at what you're doing as a political statement, a performance, or as a way of positioning yourself in relation to nature or culture, one thing is certain: you are in conversation with history.