Marijke De Roover
Make Feminism a Threat Again

Make Feminism a Threat Again
2024-2025
Open edition, unnumbered
40 €

The cap is red, obviously, because semiotics demand it: irony doesn’t work unless the visual rhyme’s exact. “Make Feminism a Threat Again” stitched across the crown in white block letters, the satire so on-the-nose it bleeds into sincerity. It’s a parody of MAGA merch, sure, but also a not-so-gentle reminder that feminism’s teeth have been filed down by decades of market-friendly empowerment rhetoric. Third-wave, fourth-wave, whatever number we’re on now, the waves feel like ripples unless they’re furious, unless they crash. And maybe the hat’s real provocation is this: the wish that feminism stop trying to be palatable and start, again, to terrify.

Marijke De Roover, September 2025