Underrated Game-Changers: Rebel Yell Creative newsletter (Feb 13, 2026)
- Feb 13
- 2 min read
Video Game Protest Art
“I kinda think the system is rigged against everyone.”
That's one of the most-cheered lines from the donkeys during asses.masses, a video game-performance art hybrid event. Created by two artists from Canada, the show hit LA recently, and this LA Times article helps you experience this strange but moving protest art.
I have a deep discomfort with games, no doubt due to my neurodivergent brain. But this actually made me want to play a 7-hour game?? No matter what, art is political, it's powerful, and it shows up everywhere the people are. And stories like this are excellent inspiration for making our own art as resistance.
Underrated ways to change the world
“Every problem seems so impossibly large and complicated, where do you even start? You start by realizing that nobody can clean up this mess single-handedly, which is fine, because we’ve got roughly 16 billion other hands at the ready. All any of us have to do is find some neglected corner and start scrubbing.”
From “Experimental History,” this collection of underrated ways to change the world is a lovely way of reframing where we are and what we can do!
Sewing the truth
The newest Art of Resistance episode tells the story of crafts fighting a dictator.
Check out images, videos, and more from the episode!
CENSORED: The Hollywood Code
This is a preview of a new bonus series for paid subscribers of the Rebel Yell Creative newsletter. In this bonus series, we look at extra Art of Resistance stories: lesser-known banned books, hidden methods of censorship, the wild world of manifestos, and more powerful ways of using art as resistance.
This week: The Hays Code, a form of self-censorship that transformed film and impacts what we see today.
Censorship isn't always imposed from above. In order to avoid some perceived punishment, or to curry favor with those in power, media will censor itself.
And how fucking insidious is it when we give in before we're even told no?
But the thing is, this self-censorship is not new. Especially in the U.S.
Just look at the story of the Hays Code in Hollywood.
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