Feminist Pest Control is a social practice art project that includes workshops, performances, and interventions created and/or curated by Lindsay Garcia.

Fem-ifesto

• Pests are any human or nonhuman animals considered out of place or at the margins of normativity and cuteness.
• Humans who live with pest animals share the identity of the pest animals.
• Humans and pest animals have co-evolved since the beginning of humankind.
• Pests are unevenly distributed across race, class, gender, ability, and sexuality lines.
• Changing our relationships to pests, physically and discursively, can aid in healing oppressions shared by human and nonhuman pests.
• The standpoints of pests must be considered when decisions are being made about the control of pests.
• Pest animals find humans to be more destructive than the other way around.
• Not all pests need to be killed or controlled.
• Pests are made up of matter.
• All matter, organic and inorganic, exists within a matrix of other matter.
• Pests are things.
• Pests are intelligent.
• Pests are not to be feared.
• Pests are also struggling to survive in the globalized capital economy against industries created purely for their demise.
• Pests deserve joy.
• Pests are an untapped resource for holistic health.
• Pests are not for medical experimentation to serve humans.
• Art about and/or co-created with pests deconstructs animal hierarchies.