Pins
Description: Counterfactual glam opera set in East Berlin where Patti Lupone plays a state-approved pop star, Mandy Patinkin is her subversive muralist lover, and Kevin Kline is the Stasi agent who wants her to betray him
Tosca '84 Pin
$3.25
Vidocq (pink) Pin
$3.25
Vidocq (green) Pin
$3.25
Foucault Pin
$3.25
Saint Genet Pin
$3.25
Barthes Pin
$3.25
Description: The Anglican priestly class was shockingly in favor of social and political inequality so the Chartists would sometimes stage sit-ins in churches Here is a late Victorian illustration depicting one such ca. 1839 protest, coupled with a pithy and historically accurate slogan
Chartist sit-in Pin
$3.25
Description: William Lovett (1800-1877), the heart of the radical Chartist movement for workers' rights and universal suffrage
William Lovett Pin
$3.25
Description: Welsh Chartist put on trial for high treason after leading the 1839 Newport Rising. Together with William Jones and Zephaniah Smith he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered but it was commuted to transportation instead. Got put on hard labor immediately because he would not stop criticizing corrupt politicians. Absolute BAMF
John Frost Pin
$3.25
Description: Welsh Chartist put on trial for high treason after leading the 1839 Newport Rising. Together with William Jones and Zephaniah Smith he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered but it was commuted to transportation instead. Got put on hard labor immediately because he would not stop criticizing corrupt politicians. Absolute BAMF
Description: Welsh Chartist put on trial for high treason after leading the 1839 Newport Rising. Together with William Jones and Zephaniah Smith he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered but it was commuted to transportation instead. Got put on hard labor immediately because he would not stop criticizing corrupt politicians. Absolute BAMF
Description: Sir Anthony Panizzi, radical Italian political refugee and librarian badass. One man, 21 principles.
Panizzi colorway #1 Pin
$3.25
Description: Sir Anthony Panizzi, radical Italian political refugee and librarian badass. One man, 21 principles.
Panizzi colorway #2 Pin
$3.25
Description: In 1832, fifteen members of the Society of the Friends of the People, an underground Republican (i.e., anti-monarchist) organization were put on trial for being RAD AS HELL
Trial of the Fifteen Pin
$3.25
Description: Legendary July Monarchy caricaturist who started the trend of drawing Louis-Philippe as a pear
Charles Philipon Pin
$3.25
Melville Pin
$3.25
Description: Pierre-François Lacenaire, poet and criminal. He wasn't very good at either poetry or crime but damned if he wasn't good at being a Romantic poet-criminal
Lacenaire Pin
$3.25
Description: The cover art for the rad debut album of a truly iconic French punk band. The graffiti is an easter egg!
Parabellum Pin
$3.25
La Goualeuse Pin
$3.25