title: Parades, Parties, and Protests: Creative Resistance Culture
author: Sarah Sparkles
description: Sarah Sparkles is an interdisciplinary artist whose passions include photography, writing, teaching, jewelry design, accessories, costumes, prop building, installation art, and dance. Sarah graduated Magna Cum Laude from Purchase College in 2004 with a degree in Media, Society, and the Arts, and received the Mike McNickle Journalism Award for investigative reporting. Born and raised in New York, Sarahs love of expressive adornment, alternative communities and dance music inspired her to spend over a decade deeply immersed in NYCs underground nightlife subcultures. During this time, she documented some of the party scenes most exuberant exploits as well as the visual art of the post-9/11 anti-war protest movements. Sarah became intensely driven by a desire to help this under-represented transformative arts movement make its mark on history. The result is this book. 12 years in the making, Parades, Parties, and Protests is a bold tribute to the creative resistance culture of the 21st century.
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  McGill-Queen’s Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance
  Series editor: Sarah Marsden 
  Protest, civil resistance, and political violence have rarely been more visible.  
  Nor have they ever involved such a complex web of identities, geographies, and 
  ideologies. This series expands the theoretical and empirical boundaries of 
  research on political conflict to examine the origins, cultures, and practices of 
  resistance. From grassroots activists and those engaged in everyday forms of 
  resistance to social movements to violent militant networks, it considers the full 
  range of actors and the strategies they use to provoke change. The series pro-
  vides a forum for interdisciplinary work that engages with politics, sociology, 
  anthropology, history, psychology, religious studies, and philosophy. Its ambition 
  is to deepen understanding of the systems of power people encounter and the 
  creative, violent, peaceful, extraordinary, and everyday w