At the launch for feminist magazine HYSTERIA I read my essay, "The Revolution Will Be Painted," with my sister, Julia Winser Fiorino—in front of a video showing how the painting was made. I adapted Scott-Heron’s poem to express the idea that revolutionary acts are part of the process of painting and have to do with seeing, and the changeability and strength of subjectivity. As part of my research for the essay, I read through all the art books I have, collecting sentences that jumped out at me, describing work by everyone across the ages from Willem de Kooning and Jean-Michel Basquiat to Cecily Brown and Edouard Manet. There are about 40 footnotes for all these references. I fit those lines into Scott-Heron’s cadence, using excerpts where the writer hits on "that flame you find in good painting."