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Graffiti\u2014a long-vilified form of art and medium for political commentary\u2014has been historically dominated by male power, but a crew of artists based in the East Bay is working hard to change that.<\/p>\n

Few and Far, the West Coast\u2019s first all-woman graffiti crew, has fostered a bond of sisterhood that spreads far beyond the coast, across multiple continents.<\/p>\n

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Artist Ursula X. Young poses for a photo in front of a mural she and her Few and Far crew created at 24th and Willow Street in Oakland, Sept. 30, 2018. Photo: Amanda Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFew and Far crew is a group of women who get together to paint and create public art around the world, with a shared commitment to promote female empowerment, social justice and the strength of women,\u201d said Ursula Young, a 44-year-old member of the crew originally from England, but now living in Grass Valley.<\/p>\n

Young joined the crew after helping paint a mural in Sacramento as a Few and Far guest artist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere weren\u2019t any known female crews on the West Coast,\u201d said Meme, a founding member of Few and Far. \u201cThe East Coast, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. were the only places with female crews.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raised in a small town in Northern California, Meme grew up in a poverty stricken and abusive home. Art saved her. She started doing graffiti by herself in her late teens after she saw a painted train that looked, as she said, like \u201can alien had just dropped down into the train yard and created this thing, my mind was blown\u2014wow, was that spray-paint?\u201d<\/p>\n

Heralded as one of the elements of hip-hop, graffiti art or \u201ctagging,\u201d when done without permission, is considered vandalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been one of the hardest things [graffiti] in my life, continuing doing it, because I do illegal work,\u201d said Meme. \u201cNot only am I physically climbing fences, running across freeways and jumping, I am like a street acrobat, climbing up sides of buildings, billboards, doing things like that in my mid-thirties, not some young-buck.\u201d<\/p>\n

One night in 2011 Meme got a wall in West Oakland and invited a bunch of \u201cbadass women\u201d to paint. One of the women, an artist named Mila from Australia, wrote \u201cFew and Far\u201d on the wall, and the rest is history. The original and largest female crew on the West Coast had made its first mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt resonated so well with the community,\u201d said Meme. \u201cWe were doing something more unique that had not been done yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dime poses for a photo in front of her most recent mural at 22nd Street and International Boulevard in Oakland\u2019s San Antonio District, Oct. 11, 2018. Photo: Amanda Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dime is a 31-year-old Xicana and fourth-generation artist from Oakland, who was one of the first members of Few and Far. She has been painting murals and doing graffiti since she was nine.<\/p>\n

Currently based in East Oakland, she is a mother of two boys and a cultural worker at East Side Alliance as well as an artist. She is a self-described art-tivist and grafitera, who says she enjoyed seeing \u201clocal neighborhood tags\u201d growing up, but not the violence associated with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith painting Graffiti, I learned hip-hop was revolutionary,\u201d she said. \u201cGraffiti is the only element of hip-hop that has been criminalized and that has made [graffiti] art so hard to be accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming up, Dime also found herself the only girl painting with all guys, yearning for a connection with other female artists. She remembers the night she first met with the other women that would soon be known as Few and Far crew.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were girls that I wanted to build up a sisterhood with because of the lack of sisterhood that I had within the graffiti movement. I wanted to build that with younger girls,\u201d said Dime. \u201cNow being in a crew with all women it feels more comfortable to be able to paint and to help each other out because you feel that you don\u2019t have to owe anybody anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The women of Few and Far, rather than competing, work together to show the world that women are stronger when unified under a common goal, to help others and create art that sparks change and social justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the community, things that happen to people of color, injustices all around the world, art has been a way of how people can speak up,\u201d said Dime. \u201cGraffiti has been a huge part of that in my life, it has been a way I have been able to find the voice and to paint the voice of many people that can\u2019t speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of the women in Few and Far are role models who work hard to beautify their hoods and make positive change within their own communities and beyond.<\/p>\n

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Graffiti artist Agana (DJ Agana) poses for a portrait in front of a mural she painted in the Mission District at 24th and Mission streets, Sept. 29, 2018. Photo: Amanda Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Agana\u2014a 35-year-old graffiti artist, DJ and mother who lives in Richmond\u2014is also one of the crew\u2019s original members. She began tagging at the age of nine. She\u2019s gone from being \u201chood-famous\u201d to live painting for TED Talks, and she now spreads her knowledge to empower youth, teaching the art of graffiti to kids in her community.<\/p>\n

She explained that graffiti is in natural opposition to capitalism. \u201cThe art form is claiming public space and saying to the world that we have our own culture and we don\u2019t need to be force-fed consumerism constantly,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is more to life than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agana has witnessed Few and Far earn respect from their male counterparts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t speak for everybody but I know most of us want to be recognized for our skills not just that we are women doing it,\u201d said Agana. \u201cIt is definitely humbling for people and dudes to come see women be hella organized and bosses, get on some big-ass scissor lifts, carry the scissor lift and do the damn thing\u2014bust out a whole wall like a beast. It is good for people to see that and come together.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked how Few and Far has impacted the graffiti game, Agana offered some words for thought:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have to live in these gender binary sections of oppression and we can do whatever the fuck we really want, whatever makes us happy. It is especially important for females to have an artistic voice in whatever medium because nobody can talk about the issues like we can and a lot of people aren\u2019t talking about issues that affect women and feminize all that is going on. If anyone is going to bring them up, [issues] it is going to us women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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