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Graffiti as Political Speech

Posted on October 30, 2014October 16, 2022 by David Barker

One wonders if some of the usual hostility towards graffiti doesn’t stem from the fact that it’s a kind of political speech. As illustrated below, there are times when the political content is overt. (I note that there isn’t a lot of graffiti conveying conservative sentiments. I wonder why that is. Where are all the spray-can wielding, weed-smoking members of the Young Conservatives caucus?)

Stop Harper - Sign in Bobcaygeon
Stop Harper – Sign in Bobcaygeon
Justice for Missing and Murdered Native Women
Justice for Missing and Murdered Native Women
What about our girls?
What about our girls?
Homeless - off Spadina in downtown Toronto
Homeless – off Spadina in downtown Toronto
Idle No More - Ottawa, Parliament Hill
Idle No More – Ottawa, Parliament Hill
Free Gaza
Free Gaza

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