Who We Are
The Rainbow Pill Collective was born from an urgency: to name, make visible, and deconstruct the systems of hate that spread in the shadows of digital spaces. We are a queer feminist, antiracist, antifascist, and anticolonial collective, interdisciplinary and resolutely intersectional, woven from diverse voices – artists, researchers, activists, technologists – united by a common conviction: technology is never neutral, and digital cultures shape our realities far beyond screens.
We come from different backgrounds, carry varied histories and experiences of marginalization, and it is precisely this plurality that nourishes our work. At the crossroads of art, critical technology, and feminist theory, we create projects that don't simply observe the world: they question it, disrupt it, open it up.
Why the "Rainbow Pill"?
Our name is not random. It stands in direct opposition to the "Red Pill" – that toxic symbol of a supposed masculinist "awakening" that actually leads to abysses of misogyny, racism, and binary thinking. The "Rainbow Pill," on the other hand, proposes an entirely different awakening: one of complexity, of the multiplicity of identities, situated knowledges, and human experiences in all their richness.
We refuse simplistic worldviews. We embrace contradictions, nuances, gray zones – not out of intellectual comfort, but because that's where the truth of human lives resides. Our "rainbow pill" symbolizes this radical openness: an invitation to think beyond fixed categories, to imagine plural and queer futures, to build spaces where creativity and critical thinking can flourish together.
Our Struggle
We work to unveil what often remains invisible: the mechanics of digital hate, the infrastructures of online misogyny, the bridges between memes and real violence, the continuities between male supremacy and contemporary fascism. Our flagship project, Entering the Manosphere, is an immersive dive into the masculinist subcultures that infect the internet – and, increasingly, our societies.
This exhibition is not a simple denunciation. It's an operation of aesthetic sabotage: we glitch, divert, and re-contextualize the visual and linguistic codes of the Manosphere to expose its raw violence. We transform memes into distorted mirrors, slogans into alarm calls. We show how what presents itself as "just a joke" is actually a coherent system of domination, dehumanization, and radicalization – a system deeply rooted in racism, colonialism, and authoritarianism.
But beyond critique, we also cultivate hope. Our work creates spaces for dialogue, invites collective reflection, encourages resilience. We deeply believe that understanding is an act of resistance – and that art can be a weapon of social transformation.
Our Approach
We don't simplify. We don't moralize. We don't pretend to have all the answers. What we do is create devices that allow audiences to feel the cold logic of these toxic spaces, to experience their unsettling coherence, and to ask themselves: what resonates in me? What repels me? And above all: who, or what, is really being exposed here?
Our ethics are clear: we work with kindness toward people while remaining uncompromising in the face of systems of oppression. We honor the complexity of lived experiences, we center marginalized voices, and we refuse to reproduce the violence we document. Every aesthetic choice, every word, every image is carefully considered – to inform without traumatizing, to alert without causing despair, to critique without cynicism.
Our Vision
We dream of a world where technologies would not be vectors of domination but tools of collective emancipation. Where digital spaces would not be battlefields but places of encounter and creation. Where diversity would not be a threat but a strength. A world rid of the colonial, racist, and fascist logics that still structure our societies – online and offline.
This vision guides each of our projects. It inspires our articles, fuels our exhibitions, structures our workshops. It's a militant vision, but also a poetic one. It's a vision that refuses to choose between rigorous analysis and radical imagination. It is, at its core, the very essence of the Rainbow Pill: a commitment to plurality, justice, and the unshakeable possibility of a better future.
We are the Rainbow Pill Collective. And we invite everyone to take the rainbow pill – to enter into complexity, to embrace multiplicity, to build together more just worlds.
A queer feminist collective at the intersection of art, technology, and critical thought.
For plural futures beyond binary thinking.