Riot Pant Project: the brand that fights toxic masculinity

The subversive photos of Riot Pant Project have flooded the instagram feeds claiming public spaces against social masculinity.

Mina Bonakdar and Elena Buscaino are fashion design e graphic design students at the Universitӓt der Kunstë Berlin, as well as the minds behind the Riot Pant Project.

This project is aimed at combating the annoying toxic masculinity, for which women still feel oppressed by men, intent on showing their virility by invading personal spaces. Too often they are led to feel insecure in public environments, where men near them have their legs spread too wide; from here, this silent but impactful revolt was born.

Their pants with printed text on the crotch with the phrases “toxic masculinity“, “stop spreading“, and “give us space“, they shout to the world that women still feel as if they have less space in the world, unlike men.

The latest pictures of the Riot Pant Project campaign were taken by the photographer Hanko Ye, who captures the reality of Berlin in public places such as the subway, portraying men and women in lilac, scottish and denim trousers, who spread their legs taking more than one seat, declaiming their subversive message.

You can send your favorite pair of trousers to the duo and choose the slogan you feel the most near to you, the duo will print it on them and you too will join the Riot Pant Project too. Otherwise, you can buy a pair of second hand trousers on their Depop page.